Bayer v. MacOmb County Sheriff

29 Mich. App. 171 (1970)

185 N.W.2d 40

BAYER

v.

MACOMB COUNTY SHERIFF

Docket No. 7941.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 10, 1970.

Nelson, Gracey & Turner, for plaintiff.

Nunneley, Nunneley, Hirt & Rinehart, for defendant.

Before: DANHOF, P.J., and V.J. BRENNAN and J.J. KELLEY, JR.,[*] JJ.

KELLEY, J.

Plaintiff seeks to recover civil damages from the sheriff and his department and a deputy sheriff for the alleged misconduct of the deputy sheriff. He alleges in his complaint that while he was under arrest at the county jail the defendant deputy sheriff struck him, inflicting serious injury. He…