Case ID: pa-d-c_9/html/0460-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Martin, P. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bylock v. Colonial Ice Cream Company.
    
      Pleading — Statement of claim — Sufficiency—Negligence—Employing dangerous person — Attack on customer — Affidavit of defence raising questions of law.
    
    In an action to recover damages for an assault by an employee of the defendant, a statement of claim which alleges that the employer was negligent in knowingly employing a brutal, etc., person, and that the defendant had been notified of the employee's disposition and told not to send him to deliver goods to the plaintiff, is sufficient, and a statutory demurrer will be dismissed.
    Statutory demurrer. C. P. No. 5, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1926, No. 6473.
    
      Ellis Budmam,, for plaintiff; Harold D. Saylor, for defendant.
    April 19, 1927.
   Martin, P. J.,

Suit was instituted to recover damages for an assault upon plaintiff by an employee of defendant.

A statement of claim was filed, to which defendant filed an affidavit of defence raising questions of law. Subsequently, plaintiff filed an amended statement of claim, from which the objectionable features to which exception was taken by the affidavit of defence were removed.

The amended statement of claim charges negligence on the part of defendant in knowingly employing “a brutal, quarrelsome, pugnacious and impolite person likely to assault and strike any person at any time without any provocation whatsoever,” and alleges that, after notice of the disposition of this employee and a request sent by plaintiff to defendant that he should not be permitted to deliver merchandise to plaintiff, defendant persisted in sending him to plaintiff’s place of business, where he violently assaulted plaintiff.

And now, to wit, April 19, 1927, the affidavit of defence raising questions of law is not sustained; defendant is given fifteen days to file a defence to averments of fact in statement of claim.