Supreme Court of South Carolina August 1, 1945, 15762 (Jones v. Elbert)

Mr. Chief Justice Baker

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

This is an action in tort for damages, actual and punitive, alleged to have been suffered by the appellant when the respondent Martin, the general manager of a dairy and farm owned and operated by his co-respondent, Mrs. Elbert, on the 15th day of March, 1942, committed assaults and batteries upon him.