Ne Casek v. City of Los Angeles

Appeal from judgment of dismissal, following the sustaining of defendants’ demurrers without leave to amend.

The first amended complaint to which the demurrers were directed alleged in substance:

The individual defendants Conrad and Modarelli were police officers employed by the defendant City of Los Angeles on November 22, 1961. In the afternoon of that day they had arrested and handcuffed two persons whom they had charged or suspected of an undisclosed violation of law and who “defendants knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known, were dangerous, desperate and desirous of…