Davis v. Terminal Railroad of St. Louis

STONE, Special Judge.

Defendant, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, appeals from a judgment of $5,000 for actual damages and an additional $5,000 for punitive damages awarded to plaintiff, Quincy Cooper Davis, by reason of an alleged assault upon plaintiff between 9 p. m. and midnight on November 13, 1954, by George L. Schlueter, one of defendant’s special agents. Plaintiff, then twenty-six years of age and an employee of Fitzsimmons Coal Company, was shot five times by Schlueter shortly after plaintiff emerged from the basement of a building situate on a tract in defendant’s railroad…