Hargrove v. Cothran

DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.

—From a judgment in favor of T. J. Cothran against Walker Hargrove rendered by the District Court of Montague County, the defendant has appealed. During an altercation between the defendant and John Adams, city marshal of Bowie, the defendant’s pistol was discharged, the bullet therefrom wounding T. J. Cothran in the foot, and the judgment rendered was for damages for this injury. The case was tried without a jury, in the absence of defendant and his counsel, whom he had employed to represent him and who had filed an answer to the plaintiff’s petition. On the third…