Mayes v. Till

SMITH, Justice:

Billy D. Till, W. J. Malone, Hudie Martin and Sidney Robinson, police officers, were defendants in a suit for damages brought against them in the County Court of Hinds County by appellants, Walter Lee Mayes and James N. Mayes. The gravamen of the cause of action stated in the declaration was that appellees had made an illegal and forcible entry and search of plaintiffs’ private apartment. It was alleged that the doors and locks of the apartment had been left in such damaged condition as to be incapable of being secured and that as the foreseeable consequence of such illegal…