Roe v. Lundstrom

EVANS, District Judge.

This is an action in tort to recover damages for an alleged unlawful and malicious interference with plaintiffs’ business. Plaintiffs allege that the defendants Lundstrom, Merkeley, and Pederson, as city commissioners of Logan City, through Smith, a police officer, prevented the public from entering the plaintiffs’ place of business where the plaintiffs proposed to conduct a sale of seasonable merchandise recently purchased by them in receivership proceedings, and for which interference they seek actual and punitive damages.

The defendants seek to justify their conduct by…