DUNCAN v. TANNER

No. 19084.

85 So.2d 685 (1956)

Mrs. William A. DUNCAN v. Orey TANNER.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

March 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porteous & Johnson, Wm. A. Porteous, Jr., New Orleans, for appellant.

Connolly & Simoneaux, M. R. Simoneaux, Trial Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.


JANVIER, Judge.

The plaintiff is the widow of William A. Duncan who, more than twenty years ago, died as a result of a blow of the fist struck by the defendant, Orey Tanner, in a beer parlor operated by Winfield, commonly known as "Jack" Tanner, the brother of the defendant.

Plaintiff alleges that her husband had been in the said barroom for more than an hour during which time he and his brother, Winfield Tanner, the operator of the bar, had been "skylarking...

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