McCluskey v. Steinhorst

On the night of July 7-8,1963, defendants (both of whom were Sauk county deputy sheriffs), received a request to go to the Reedsburg hospital to investigate a report that a man had been injured. When they arrived at the hospital they found Mr. Clifford Fry in the outpatient emergency room being treated for cuts over his left eye. Fry told the defendants he had taken the plaintiff to his parents’ home and when they arrived plaintiff had struck him with a board, which was the reason he was at the hospital.

The defendants, after hearing Fry’s story, radioed the Reedsburg police, were informed of…