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OGILBY v. ESKEY

No. 1739.

121 A.2d 265 (1956)

C. F. R. OGILBY et al., Trustees, trading as Byron S. Adams, Appellants, v. Joseph A. ESKEY, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joseph Barse, Washington, D. C., with whom H. Mason Welch, John R. Daily, and J. Harry Welch, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Samuel Intrater, Washington, D. C., with whom Albert Brick, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Eskey sued the operators of a printing business for an assault committed upon him by one of their employees. A jury awarded him damages and defendants bring this appeal.

Since our first question is whether defendants were entitled to a directed verdict, we must consider the evidence in the light of familiar and accepted tests. The substance of plaintiff's testimony was that he was superintendent of a downtown office building...

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