Tate v. Baugh
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John K. McCall, Judge. Action at law by Gladys Weathersby Tate against J. O. Baugh, Sheriff of Coahoma County, Miss. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DONAHUE, Circuit Judge.
The action below was brought to recover damages for the wrongful killing of plaintiff’s husband, Russell L. Tate, by George Anderson, while acting in the capacity of deputy sheriff by appointment of J. O. Baugh, sheriff of Coahoma county, Miss., in the attempt to arrest the deceased upon a warrant issued by A. H. Miller, justice of the peace. The defendant denied that he ever appointed Anderson as deputy sheriff, that he had specially deputized Anderson to serve the same, or that he had any knowledge, prior to the killing of Tate, that such a warrant had been issued.
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