Witt v. Lunsford

MOREMEN, Justice.

Appellee, William Lunsford, recovered damages from appellant, Sheridan Witt, in the sum of $5,000 for injuries he had received as a result of being shot by appellant.

On March 26, 1948, William Lunsford, a farmer about 59 years of age, was working a tobacco bed. He quit work and went to the place of his brother, Charley Lunsford, to obtain two sacks of fertilizer. When he reached his brother’s place, he saw appellant, Sheridan Witt, and his son, Otis Witt. He started home and was walking along the edge of the Piney Grove Road when a truck being operated by Otis Witt approached…