Morton v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This action was commenced in the Circuit Court of Wright County, from whence it went on change of venue to the Circuit Court of Webster County. The plaintiff sued to recover both compensatory and punitive damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from a willful, unprovoked, unlawful, violent and malicious assault, committed upon the body and person of plaintiff, while he was a passenger upon defendant's railroad train, by a servant and employee of defendant, who, at the time of the alleged assault, is alleged to have been exercising the authority delegated to him by defendant and…