Bailey v. . Ferguson

This was a civil action to recover damages, both compensatory and punitive, alleged to have been caused by an assault and battery committed upon the plaintiff by the defendant Ferguson, while acting within the scope of his agency and employment by the defendant W. T. Grant Company.

The evidence of the plaintiff tended to show that she went into the store of the corporate defendant on West Walnut Street in the city of Goldsboro to do some shopping, and while in the store she picked up -a box of shoe polish and a pair of hose, intending to have them wrapped and to pay for them, that before she…