Bearman v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

This is a suit by a father in behalf of his minor son, claiming damages alleged to have been sustained by the' child and medical expenses resulting from a whipping administered by an employee of the defendant, while acting in the scope and course of his employment:

' The petition charges that .• on Sunday, May 12, 1929, at 3 o’clock p. mv plaintiff’s minor child was playing ball on the sidewalk in front of the Galvez telephone exchange, when a private watchman of the defendant company assaulted and beat the boy and drove him from the sidewalk in front of the building, causing tire injuries…