Republic Iron & Steel Co. v. Self
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. John H. Miller. Action by Burtie Self by next friend, against the Republic Iron & Steel Company, for damages for slander and assault and battery. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from tbe Court of Appeals under the act creating such court.
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The cause was submitted on count 1 which claimed that: “While plaintiff was in said commissary or store, in or about transacting business with the defendant, which business was conducted by the defendant in said commissary or store, one of the defendant’s servants or agents, whose duty it was, on behalf of the defendant, to wait upon those having business with the defendant in said commissary or store, wrongfully used abusive or insulting language towards plaintiff while both were in said commissary or store and plaintiff was engaged in or about said business with said defendant in said…
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