Hansen v. COHEN

Action by Clarence Hansen against Cohen and Kesselman, co-partners, to recover damages resulting from an assault and battery by an employee of defendants who operated what is known as the Civic Parking Lot in Portland. Prom a judgment of nonsuit plaintiff appeals.

On the evening of April 19, 1952, plaintiff went to the lot to get his car which he had left there earlier in the day. He entered the office building on the premises and paid Millard Waters, defendants’ employee in charge, his parking fee. The undisputed facts are that upon the payment of the fee plaintiff invited Waters *160to throw…