WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
In this action James Stewart, a Negro who had been a sharecropper for many years in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, alleges that Thomas D. Gilmore, the defendant, pistol-whipped him, without provocation, and forced him to flee for his life to Mississippi.
In 1956 Stewart raised cotton on a halves-agreement with Gilmore. Stewart had a lot of irons in the fire. He worked twenty acres here in potatoes, and seventeen acres there in corn...
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