Travelers Insurance Company v. Hampton

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

In a trial to the court, M. A. Hampton, the father of Tony Hampton, deceased, recovered a judgment against his employer’s insurance carrier and it has appealed.

On March 16, 1966, at 10:00 o’clock P.M. Tony Hampton and Wayne Patterson, employees of Pinkie’s Inc., were coming out of the back door of Pinkie’s store when they were shot and killed by William T. Patterson. Wayne Patterson, Tony’s fellow employee, was a cousin of William. The killing arose out of a grievance William had against his cousin Wayne for about five years because Wayne had then struck William with a…