Lucille E. Moran v. William F. Bench

ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

In this action for damages brought under the civil rights statutes, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, against certain officials of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles the district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. On plaintiff’s appeal the sole question is whether her affidavit raises an issue of fact.

The underlying facts are not in dispute. Late in 1959 plaintiff was involuntarily committed, for psychiatric reasons, to a Veterans Administration hospital. Early in 1960, defendant Bench, a “supervisor” at the Registry, received a telephone call from a…