Stamps v. Polk

Appellant was plaintiff in the court below, and sued by his father as next friend for damages for an assault upon him by appellees.

It appears that on a Saturday in a store, Rodney Polk, one of the defendants, struck the plaintiff two or three blows, when they were separated by the owner of the store. It appears also that on the Thursday preceding this difficulty the plaintiff, Stamps, had struck J. T. Polk, the father of Rodney Polk, in a difficulty on the premises of J. T. Polk. Plaintiff’s version of the difficulty is that he was struck on the back of the head by some one that he did not…