Coughlin v. Rosen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for an assault and battery committed upon the plaintiff on January 12, 1912, by one Eddels, who was alleged to have been an agent of the defendant acting within the. scope of his employment, at the premises numbered 293, 295 and 297 on Prospect Street in Cambridge, which were occupied as a garage by the plaintiff under a lease from the defendant.
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Tort for an assault and battery committed upon the plaintiff on January 12, 1912, by one Eddels, who was alleged to have been an agent of the defendant acting within the. scope of his employment, at the premises numbered 293, 295 and 297 on Prospect Street in Cambridge, which were occupied as a garage by the plaintiff under a lease from the defendant. Writ dated November 15, 1912. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Morton, J. The evidence is described in the opinion. The defendant excepted to the admission in evidence by the judge of the record of a suit in equity brought by the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action for an assault committed upon the plaintiff by one Eddels, who was alleged to be an agent of the defendant and acting within the scope of his employment.
On the twelfth day of January, 1912, the date of the alleged assault, the plaintiff occupied, under a written lease, certain premises owned by the defendant. The plaintiff occupied the leased premises as a garage. The defendant asserted that the plaintiff had violated certain provisions of the lease, and a few days before the alleged assault he consulted with one Scharton, an attorney, for the purpose of ejecting the…
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