Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Hopkins

Hopkins sued the railroad company, alleging that, while waiting at a station on the line of road of the defendant, he was assaulted and beaten by the night watchman, an employee of the defendant, and thereby sustained damages. Upon the trial it appeared from the testimony introduced by the plaintiff that he and others had repaired to the depot of the defendant to await the arrival of a train upon which they intended to take passage; that while in the waiting-room the night watchman came in, and in the presence of the females therein used profane and obscene language, and upon plaintiff…