Legal Opinion
Martha Wiley, Mother and Next of Kin of Fred Lee Berry, a Deceased Minor v. Memphis Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 10, 1977No. 75-2321PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants after a non-jury trial of an action seeking $1,000,000 damages and declaratory relief, brought by Martha Wiley against police officers and municipal defendants. Wiley sued for the alleged wrongful death of her son, Freddie Lee Berry, who was nearing his seventeenth birthday when he was shot and killed in the night season while fleeing from a sporting goods store in which the police officers had observed him and two companions in the commission of a burglary.
Jurisdiction of the Court was invoked under 28 U.S.C. §§…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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3Cited by49 opinions
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