Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Patton
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided April 23, 1940No. 57PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, District Judge.
The complaint in this civil action was filed on March 11, 1940, by a non-resident who qualified as administrator of a decedent who was a resident of Tennessee in this judicial district of the United States at the time of his death, against a sheriff of one of the counties of this district and the sureties on. his official bond. The action seeks to recover $50,000 damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate through the alleged wrongful act of the defendant sheriff and his deputies in unlawfully and negligently imprisoning the decedent, Elbert Jowers, in a small steel…
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