Mercury Freight Lines, Inc. v. Pharo

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a suit by Milton Pharo against Mercury Freight Lines, Inc., a corporation, to recover damages for an assault and battery alleged to have been committed on him on August 21, 1953, by Durwood J. Sharron, an agent or employee of defendant corporation, while acting in the line of his duty and within the scope of his employment as such agent or employee.

The cause was tried upon the one count of the complaint and the defendant’s plea of the general issue in short by consent in the usual form. The trial resulted in a *324verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $10,000. The judgment…