Wheat v. Hunt

HEARD, Judge.

This is an action for damages for an unprovoked assault and battery which is alleged to have been committed on the person of the plaintiff by the defendant, William David Hunt. After trial judgment was rendered rejecting the demands of the plaintiff and plaintiff has appealed.

The incident which gave rise to this suit occurred at approximately one o’clock A.M. on March 30,1975, in a pool room in connection with a Horn Street bar in Natchitoch-es, Louisiana. Plaintiff, accompanied by John E. Prudhomme, Donnie Moran and Mary Jean Soloman, arrived at the pool room shortly after…