Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. v. Bates

CARR, Judge.

A large group of employees of the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company (which will be denoted herein as the company) staged a riot or near riot at the company’s plant which resulted in considerable property damage. Several persons were arrested at the time and on the scene, and charged with being participants in the disturbance. Ray Bates was not among those so detained. Several days subsequently Mr. Bates, as a spectator, attended the trial of his co-workers. On this occasion Mr. Bodeker, one of the company’s plant investigators, who was at the scene of the riot while it was…