Howell v. Gray

DELEHANT, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a prisoner in the Nebraska state penitentiary, has instituted this action, in forma pauperis, against the two persons above identified and described. He demands judgment in the sum of $150,-000.00 for damages alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of his arrest in Wichita, Kansas, in May, 1947, and in the state of Tennessee at a later date; his transportation to Hebron, Nebraska, upon a charge of his commission in Thayer County, Nebraska, of a felony; and his detention in jail at Hebron, Nebraska, for a substantial period of time on that…