White v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

McCOLLOCH, District Judge.

This is an action for alleged assault and battery by the defendant Telephone Com*872pany’s chief special agent, H. A. Hansley. The evidence tended to show that the Tele^ phone Company suspected plaintiff, an old employee, of connection with a hold-up of the company’s offices in the City of Portland. A former convict appeared at the city police station in Portland shortly after the hold-up, and turned over a blue-print map of the floor of the Telephone Company’s building on which the robbery occurred. He stated that the map had been given to him by plaintiff about six…