Honeycutt v. Town of Boyce

CUTRER, Judge.

This is an action by Mrs. Yvonne Honey-cutt, surviving spouse of Merlin Honeycutt, and decedent’s two children by a previous marriage, Lonnie Honeycutt and Mrs. Diana Honeycutt Daley, against the Town of Boyce, Louisiana, and Jim Hillman, individually and as marshal of the Town of Boyce, to recover damages for the death of Merlin Honeycutt.

On January 8, 1973, Jim Hillman, the duly elected City Marshal of the Town of Boyce, shot and killed Merlin Honeycutt. Suit was filed alleging that the Town of Boyce was liable because Hillman was in the course and scope of his employment with…