Griffith v. Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate Co.

The plaintiff in error brought an action in the court of common pleas of this county against the defendant in error, alleging that during a strike at the defendant company’s tin mill in Steubenville a riot occurred on the streets, in which riot her intestate, George A. Griffith, was shot and killed by an employe of the defendant company, and that his death was caused by the negligence of the defendant company in arming this employe with the gun that caused the death of her intestate.

In that action the Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate Company, defendant, answered, and in its second defense alleged…