Nesbit v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blackhawk District Court. — Hon. Franklin C. Platt, Judge. ' Action at law to recover damage for an assault made upon plaintiff by one of defendant’s employees. A jury was called, and, at the conclusion of all the testimony, the trial court sustained defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiff is a physician, living at Waterloo, Iowa. Anticipating a shipment of drugs over defendant’s road which he had ordered, he went to defendant’s freight house in an automobile, accompanied by his seventeen-year-old son. One Pattison was defendant’s freight house foreman, who had full authority over the same, with the right to employ and discharge men in the conduct thereof. He had charge of all incoming freight and of the freight house and platforms used for loading and unloading goods. When plaintiff and his son reached the freight house, plaintiff sent the son into the freight depot…
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