Joyner v. Onstad
Montana Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barz
*363Plaintiff, Jack Joyner, appeals the decision of the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment. We affirm.
Gallatin County hired Joyner on November 12, 1984 to work as a jailer in the Gallatin County Detention Center. On May 10, 1985, Joyner broke regulations by entering the cell of a female prisoner without being accompanied by another employee. A fight ensued between Joyner and the female prisoner. As a result of this incident, Gallatin County Sheriff John Onstad suspended Joyner’s employment, pending an investigation…
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