Lee v. Knight

1 Respondent, Carl Pine Lee, brought this civil action against petitioner, T.C. Knight, alleging that Knight had intentionally set fire to a barn belonging to Lee and to hay stored in fields belonging to Lee and had destroyed fences enclosing those fields. Lee also alleged that Knight had threatened Lees life while pointing a shotgun at him. Lee sought damages for the property destroyed and for the emotional distress from having his life threatened in the course of the gun-pointing episode.