Sloan v. Pierce

*66The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

William H. Pierce sued Edward I. Sloan and Henry J. Sloan for damages alleged to have been occasioned by their assaulting and shooting him. The’ defendants filed answers which besides denying the plaintiff’s allegations presented in detail their version of the conflict out of which the litigation grew, which was in effect that Pierce, his wife and son made an unjustifiable attack upon Henry J. Sloan, and that whatever the latter did was in self-defense; that Edward I. Sloan, the son of his codefendant, interfered to' protect his father, and…