Quinn v. Banker

On the Merits.

Plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a cook in the restaurant operated by him in Ponchatoula. On the morning of the alleged assault, as had been her custom for some time, plaintiff went to the railroad depot to sell the train crew some doughnuts and hot coffee. Plaintiff claims that she paid the waitress at the restaurant ten cents for the doughnuts and ten cents for the coffee. The doughnuts were in a bag and the coffee was in a jar which was also in a bag.

Defendant suspected that plaintiff had stolen the doughnuts from his restaurant, which practice he had suspected on…