Gray v. Williams

BOULDIN, Justice.

Count A of the complaint, one of the counts on which the cause was tried, claimed damages “for that heretofore to-wit on July 9, 1931, a servant or agent of defendants acting within the line and scope of his authority as such servant or agent committed an assault and battery on the person of plaintiff.”

An an approach to the questions raised touching this count, we first review certain tendencies of the evidence.

Plaintiff, Bennie Lou Williams, a girl 15 years of age, was living with her mother at Mulga, Ala., a mining camp.

Defendant, Walter Gray, had sworn out a warrant for…