Giles M. Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Company, Inc. Ronald L. Barbour

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Giles M. Lugar appeals the dismissal of'his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in which he had alleged that the defendants as private party debt claimants in a state court action had maliciously invoked against him state prejudgment attachment procedures which resulted in the seizure of his property under a levy that was later set aside in the state proceeding because not supported on the facts shown. Claiming that the seizure by levy — whether as authorized by the state attachment statute or as erroneously carried out by state officials1 — had deprived him of…