Gomez v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

This .is a suit of a sixteen-year-old hoy by his mother as next friend, for damages on account of an assault and battery by the manager in charge of the business of a grocery and mercantile store of the defendant company. The court on general demurrer dismissed the amended petition. The substance of the cause alleged is that, while the boy was in the store with money in his hand to make a purchase, the manager, who was in charge of and had general supervision over the company’s business in the store, directed him to take out a sack of hour to an automobile near the store, and upon his failure…