Hunt-Berlin Coal Co. v. Paton
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. — A. B. PlTÍMAN, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This is an action to recover for the alleged wrongful death of R. L. Patón, in which the Hunt-Berlin Coal Company and one of its employees, W. R. More-head, áre defendants. The deceased was shot and killed by Morehead.
His personal representative procured a favorable verdict and judgment against both defendants, but on appeal the court of civil appeals held that the trial judge should have sustained a motion for peremptory instructions in behalf of the coal company, that a like motion of defendant Morehead was properly overruled, but that there was reversible error in the charge of the court…
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