Medlin Milling Co. v. Boutwell

This writ of error is prosecuted from the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals affirming that of the district court in favor of defendant in error (plaintiff) against plaintiff in error (defendant) for damages for a personal injury inflicted on the plaintiff, a new employé of the defendant, by its other employés while attempting, in sport, to lay him across a barrel for the purpose of paddling him, a process which they called the “initiation” into the service. The defendant is a milling corporation, and at the time in question and for years before had a president, general manager, foremen,…