Legal Opinion
Charles Ashbrook and Master Chef, Inc. v. Harlan Hoffman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 19, 1980No. 79-2000PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The central issue on appeal is whether Indiana partition commissioners are entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity for their conduct in handling a partition sale and in distributing the proceeds from such a sale. The district court concluded that the defendants-appellees, Harlan Hoffman and James Hooper, the partition commissioners, were entitled to absolute immunity for the alleged acts of wrongdoing and granted the motion to dismiss them from the suit remaining in federal court. 1 Plaintiffs, Charles Ashbrook and Master Chef, Inc., appealed. We…
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