Scheen v. Poland

Poché, J.'

Plaintiff seeks to recover fivethousand dollars as damages^ for a violent blow and a wound inflicted on him by the defendant with a pistol; and he has taken the present appeal from the verdict of a jury allowing him damages in the sum of one dollar and costs.

Although the evidence is somewhat conflicting, the record discloses the following state of facts:

While the plaintiff was engaged, in the month of May, 1881, in a law office in the courthouse of Bienville Parish, in assisting a committee of arbitration charged with the settlement of a commercial partnership formerly existing…