Legal Opinion
Geach v. Moynahan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 9, 1953No. 10872_1PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAIM, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, the complaint in an action in which the plaintiff sought damages in the District Court against four members of the Police Department of the City of Chicago, Illinois, for having allegedly deprived the plaintiff of certain civil rights guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States.
The complaint alleged that two of the defendants William J. Moynahan and Raymond Brewer, on August 18, 1948, came to the plaintiff’s private home, identified themselves as Police Officers of the City of Chicago and gained…
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