Fyfe v. Davis

The plaintiff and the defendant Dollarhide were both in the employ of the director general of railroads, on the line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, at Perry, during the period of Federal control of railways. It was alleged in the petition, and there was evidence tending to show, that the plaintiff was employed as a fireman, and the defendant Dollarhide was night roundhouse foreman, at Perry; that, while both plaintiff and Dollarhide were engaged in their respective duties, the latter made an unprovoked assault upon plaintiff, and inflicted a serious and permanent…