Taylor v. Franklin

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

Dr. J. H. Taylor is a practicing physician of Providence. Some trouble arose between him and one Eugene Reynolds over a medical bill. Reynolds is a large man physically and Taylor is rather small. Taylor was informed that Reynolds was making threats to do him violence and procured a pistol, as he says, to protect himself.

Shortly afterward he was preparing to make a professional call. He was to be driven by a young man named Bfyant, whose machine was parked some two or three squares from his office.

He states that as he left his office Reynolds…