Legal Opinion
Thomas Byrd v. William P. Brishke
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 1972No. 71-1434PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the granting by the district court of defendants’ motion for a directed verdict in a civil rights case brought pursuant to 42 U.S. C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343. Plaintiff alleged in this action that the defendants, all police officers of the City of Chicago and acting under color of law, had caused personal injury to him in violation of his civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States in that they had:
a. Found the plaintiff in an injured condition bleeding profusely from the right thigh and while in such a…
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