Allen v. City of Ogden

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, C. J.:

The appellant, Lena B. Allen, commenced this action against the City of Ogden, Kansas, a municipal corporation, alleging that agents of the city conspired to use excessive force in her arrest for double-parking, and that subsequent harassment by public authorities has caused her irreparable physical and mental anguish. The petition sought actual damages of $60,000 and punitive damages in a like amount. It should be noted that neither the officer who made the arrest, the mayor, nor any of the members of the city council of Ogden were made…