McCoy v. Taylor Tire Co.

WADDILL, Commissioner.

Allen McCoy, by his next friend, brought this action for civil assault against ap-pellees, Lee Taylor and the Taylor Tire Company. Upon the jury’s verdict for ap-pellees, judgment was entered dismissing the petition. McCoy prosecutes this appeal.

The appellant was a youth of 17 years of age at the time the alleged assault took place, who only a few months previously had left his home on a farm to look for work in Lexington. He rented a room and took a job at a grocery store near the place of business of the Taylor Tire Company. He became acquainted with some of the…