Bobby T. Griffith and William E. Vandiver v. Edsel Edwards, Sheriff

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of the appellee Edwards, Sheriff of Stoddard County, Missouri, at the time of the complaints alleged. The suit, filed on the basis of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983, sought monetary damages and in-junctive relief.

The appellants complain that the ap-pellee abused them mentally and physi cally, beat them, stomped them, forced them to eat through the bars of their cells, refused them proper bedding and showers, as well as normal visiting privileges, sprayed them with mace, forced them to do push-ups, denied them drinking water…