Hingle v. Myers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Plaquemines; R. E. Hingle, Judge. Action by Walter Hingle and wife against Graham Myers. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
The defendant fractured the skull of the son of the plaintiffs, a young man 20 years old, lacking three months, by a blow with an ax handle; and this suit is brought in damages.
Plaintiffs’ son is shown to have been of a quarrelsome disposition, especially when drinking. He and a number of others were at defendant’s store, on the government reservation, at Berwood, in the parish of Plaque-mines. This store is the only one on the reservation, and is also the post office; and defendant is the postmaster. It was about dusk, and the time for the mail to arrive. The day was Christmas, and…
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