Summar ex rel. Summar v. Bennett

OPINION

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents an appeal by James A. Summar (“Plaintiff’) on behalf of his deceased son, James A. Summar II (“Sum-mar”), and as next friend of his grandchild James B. Summar, a minor. Summar served as a confidential informant to the Rutherford *1056County, Tennessee, Sheriffs Office until his death three or four days after Officer Benjamin Bennett (“Bennett”) disclosed Summar’s identity to the Rutherford County District Attorney’s Office to assist in its preparation of a pleading against a criminal suspect about whom Summar had gathered evidence. Following his…