Willis v. Putnam County

SHARP, Judge.

Clayton and Doris Willis appeal from a final summary judgment denying them any relief in their damage suit against the Sheriff and the County of Putnam, Florida. While Willis was being detained in the county jail for a seventy-two hour period *52pursuant to the Myers Act,1 the officers in the jail administered to him both alcohol, to prevent delerium tremens, and Coumadin (a blood thinning drug), for his heart condition. The combination of alcohol and Coumadin caused Willis to hemorrhage both externally and internally. Willis was immediately rushed to a hospital and he ultimately…