Legal Opinion
Sowers v. LaPorte Superior Court, No. II
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided August 29, 1991No. 46A03-9103-CV-00073PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STATON, Judge.
Lawrence Sowers, an inmate at the Westville Correctional Center, appeals the trial court's denial of his Rule 27(A) motion to perpetuate testimony in anticipation of his Tort Claims Act (Act) lawsuit alleging that certain corrections officers had negligently lost items of his personal property. Sowers filed his motion because of concerns that witnesses expected to be called in his suit would not be available when he ultimately files his claim under the Act 1 Sowers raises two allegations of trial court error, which we consolidate and rephrase as:
Whether the trial court abused…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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