Court Opinion

ID: 9665587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:52:09.576338+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:17.015368
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*857McGeh.ee, O'. J.,
(dissenting).
I think that the only theory upon which liability should be sustained in this case is that the employer knew that the fellow-employee Stewart, who inflicted the injury upon Pittman, was a man of dangerous disposition and likely to inflict injuries upon a fellow-employee, not that negligence is necessary to constitute liability in these cases but such proof would have shown that the injury complained of was due to an industrial hazard or risk incident to this employee being required to be associated in his work with a person who has sustained an alleged serious injury that caused him to be of a violent and dangerous disposition. The evidence offered to establish this fact was excluded when offered and, therefore, the proof was not fully developed, and I think that the case should have been reversed and remanded for a full development of the proof upon that issue.
I am of the opinion that while there is ample authority to’ support the decision reached in the controlling opinion herein, the cases relied upon in the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Roberds are more logical and express what is to my mind the better view for this Court to adopt. The Court, however, has seen fit to adopt the more liberal view, to which I shall, of course, subscribe in future cases. For the time being I join in the dissenting opinion for the reasons stated above.