Whitesides v. Wheeler

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

Walter Whiteside was employed by Mrs. Annie Wheeler to paint her residence in Lagrange, both its exterior and interior. He painted the exterior first, being engaged thereat between two and three weeks. After completing the outside painting, he went to work on the inside of the residence, and while engaged therein, he was shot in the forearm and wounded by Grilly Wheeler, a son of Mrs. Annie Wheeler.

Grilly Wheeler, at the time of this shooting, in June, 1912, was about thirty-two years of age; and was of unsound mind. When about nineteen years of…