Alberta Potter v. Otis Lamunyon, Leslie Davison, Guy T. Parks, Karl Headrick and John Butler

WOODBURY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an action for false arrest and imprisonment brought in the court below under its diversity jurisdiction. Title 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a) (1). The plaintiff, a divorcee and the mother of three small children, is now, and was at the time this action was brought, a citizen of Kansas. The defendants are the Sheriff, his two deputies, a state highway patrol officer and the County Judge, all of Major County, Oklahoma, where the plaintiff’s arrest and detention occurred and where she was then living in the county seat of Fairview.

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