Corona Coal Co. v. Sexton

Appellants were the defendants in the court below, and appellee was the plaintiff.

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants for damages, alleging, in substance, that Weyman Hembree, while employed by and acting within the scope of his said employment by the Corona Coal Company, a corporation, 'negligently, unskillfully, or inadvertently sold to the plaintiff “tablets containing strychnine, and other poisons, or tablets containing poisonous substance,” as and for calomel tablets, for which plaintiff had called, and negligently or unskillfully gave to plaintiff directions for the…