Boggs v. Lynch

This suit was brought by plaintiffs to recover damages for the alleged trespass of a servant in the employ of defendants. The petition alleges that plaintiffs, being the owners of a box of looking-glasses, had employed a carman to transport them from the levee, in the city of St. Louis, to their store on Fourth street; that while they were in the act of unloading the box and had it partly out of the car, a negro servant, then in the employment and under the control and direction of defendants, and at the time engaged in driving á carriage and horses of defendants, carelessly and negligently…