Johnson v. McAllister

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Willie T. McAllister, while in charge of a poolroom, became engaged in an alterca-ticm with an unruly patron, during the course of which a pistol in McAllister’s hand discharged and the bullet, ricocheting from the slate top of a pool table, struck Jerry Johnson, another patron, severing a nerve in his arm. Johnson subsequently brought suit against McAllister and against Andy Weisenberger, the latter being alleged to be a partner with McAllister in the ownership and operation of the poolroom. The defendants maintained they were not partners; that McAllister was the sole…