Blalock v. Temple

These consolidated-actions for damages grew out of a fight between the defendants, S. M. Blalock and James Bales, ages 32. and 30 respectively, .which occurred on the night of March 23,. 1953, ahont 8 p.m., at the filling station-store owned and operated by the plaintiffs, William A. Temple and wife, Irene Temple, located about 6 miles northwest of the town of S.evierville on the Knoxville-Sevierville Highway. Blalock, Bales and Raymond De Lozier, who was also a defendant below, had been riding together for some time in the latter’s automobile, and just previous to the fight had driven to the…