Lamb v. Clark, Jailer

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

— Reversing.

This action was brought by T. E. Lamb, here appellant, against Lloyd Clark, as jailer of Craves county, his deputy, Orville Lassiter, and the Fidelity & Casualty Co.' of New York, surety upon Clark’s bond, for damages alleged sustained by reason of his having been unlawfully assaulted, beaten and injured while incarcerated in the Craves county jail.

The petition alleged that at about 10 o’clock of the evening of April 7, 1938, he was arrested by policemen of the city of Mayfield, Kentucky, for being drunk and by them carried to and placed in the…