Bolton v. Sevario

Plaintiff instituted this suit for damages arising out of an alleged willful, wanton and malicious assault by the striking and shooting of plaintiff by defendant J. Birchey Sevario, an alleged deputy Sheriff for the Parish of East Baton Rouge. He has made defendants the said Sevario, Newman H. de Bretton, the Sheriff of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, and the Globe Indemnity Company of New York, the surety on the bond of the Sheriff. The Sheriff and his surety filed an exception of no cause of action, and alternatively an exception of no right of action. The lower court sustained the…