Irene Lucero v. Thomas W. Donovan

ELY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment which followed a directed verdict in favor of defendants in the court below. Irene Lucero, the appellant, brought her suit under the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Rev.Stat. § 1979 (1875), 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 1 The defendants are two policewomen and two peace officers of the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California, Delia Florez Buczek, Madeline Cobb, Robert Conrad, and Richard Wells. 2 The transcript of testimony discloses the controlling facts, as follows:

On October 4, 1960, while defendant Conrad and another…