Coffer v. Bradshaw

(After stating the foregoing facts.) These defendants contend that the petition does not show any liability on their part, and that they failed in the performance of any duty required of them as employees of Swift & Company to the petitioner. Thejr base their contention upon two propositions. The first is that their failure to perform certain things, charged in the petition as negligence on their part, were mere acts of nonfeasance on tlieir part, for which they would not be liable, instead of acts of misfeasance, and that they, as employees of the corporate defendant, the owner of the mills…