Davidson v. Chinese Republic Restaurant Co.

If the testimony of the plaintiff is believed, he was wantonly and brutally assaulted and beaten by the head waiter of the defendant with an instrument suspected to have been a “billy,” rather than described and known to have been one, while leaving the restaurant where, with his wife and some friends, he had been served with refreshment. The bill had been paid, not by plaintiff, but by a companion, and nothing remained to be done but to leave, and plaintiff and his party were leaving. No one else connected with the restaurant, apparently, advised, instigated or approved of the conduct of the…