Herron v. Whiteside

Bill Herron, an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary, appeals summary judgment in favor of the named prison employees. The judgment is affirmed.

In a pleading captioned “Petition for Breach of Duty,” Mr. Herron alleged that seven named prison employees negligently or intentionally failed to safeguard his personal property left in his cell when he appeared in court outside the prison on December 16,1985. He escaped. Mr. Her-ron alleges that in his absence prison employees gave away his property or allowed other inmates to remove it from his cell, and the property was not returned to him.…