SILLS v. MID-SOUTH SPORTS, INC.

No. 20850-CA.

550 So.2d 909 (1989)

Grover Donald SILLS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MID-SOUTH SPORTS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied December 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry H. Lemoine, Jr., Pineville, for defendant-appellant, James E. Duggan, II.

Bruscato, Loomis & Street by Anthony J. Bruscato, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MARVIN, NORRIS and LINDSAY, JJ.


MARVIN, Judge.

"Hacksaw" Duggan, a professional wrestler who makes his living "entertaining fans," appeals a judgment against him awarding $25,432 in damages to a fan whose eye socket was fractured when Duggan intentionally struck the fan one or more times with his fist.

Duggan contends that the trial court should have found that the fan was the aggressor or in any event that provocation by the fan and the fan's young brother-in-law should mitigate the amount...

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