Horecker v. Pere Marquette Railroad

By this appeal the defendant railroad company seeks to reverse a judgment' for $400 rendered against it, after verdict, in an action for damages for injuries to plaintiff occasioned by an assault and battery com- • mitted by two of defendant’s gatemen, Sheridan and McGrenera, at its passenger depot at Chicago on July 12, 1921. The defense was that at the time of the committing of the assault upon plaintiff the gatemen were not acting within the scope of their employment and were off duty, and, as plaintiff was not a passenger of defendant’s railroad and had no intention of becoming such, that…