242 F. 926 | 6th Cir. | 1917
Harris, the plaintiff below, was a porter employed by a shipper of freight at Edmonson, a station on the Rock Island line, in Arkansas. As such porter, he delivered at the railroad freight house three empty oil barrels for shipment. The station agent directed him to load the barrels into a freight- car, and declined to issue a bill of lading until this was done; but Harris refused, and left the barrels on the platform. Under the rules and tariffs in force, plaintiff had performed the full duty of the shipper, it was the duty of the station agent to load the barrels into the car, and his demand that plaintiff do so was wholly unjustified. The next day, as plaintiff was passing by the station on other business, the station agent, by intimidation and force, took him from the street to the freight house and compelled him to put these barrels on the car. Eor the resulting physical
The judgment must be affirmed.