Healey v. Lothrop
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for an assault and battery. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
This is an action of tort against the keeper of a place of amusement in Boston, seeking to make him liable for an assault and battery alleged to have been committed by one Mead, a special police officer, while on his premises. Whatever the officer did, he did as such police officer, and without direction or knowledge on the part of the defendant. The officer was appointed in pursuance of St. 1878, c. 244, § 6, upon the application of the defendant, to serve without pay from the city, under such rules and regulations as the police commissioners deemed expedient. He was paid by the defendant,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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