Fulmer v. Louisville N. R. Co.

HIGGINS, Judge.

This is á suit for damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted when one of the special officers of the defendant railroad company illegally and without provocation assaulted plaintiff with a club on the night of February 24, 19S3, while he was in the act of boarding one of its freight trains in its railroad yards for the purpose of going to Biloxi, Miss. The defendant admits that the plaintiff sustained a fracture of one of the bones of his right arm, but denies that its officer or watchman assaulted the plaintiff and caused the injury complained of.

The jury rendered…