Crum v. Walker

Smith, J. —

Plaintiff, a café employee from Shenandoah, Iowa, shortly after midnight, April 26, 1946, while in Red Oak, Iowa, entered Dreamland, a restaurant owned and operated by defendants Charles O. and Margaret Walker. He was accompanied by Dale Irwin. They sat on lunch-counter stools and were waited on by defendant Harry Walker, son of his codefend-ants. The alleged assault and battery was committed by Harry Walker who struck plaintiff on the head with a 7-Up bottle.

Plaintiff brought this action and was awarded by the jury actual damages in the sum of $1500 and exemplary damages $2500,…