Norton v. McShane

CLAYTON, District Judge.

Each of these three actions was originally brought in the Circuit Court of Lafayette County, Mississippi, and time*132ly removed to this court. The three declarations or complaints are in essentially identical form and each seek actual and punitive damages for alleged deprivation of certain rights of these plaintiffs growing out of their arrest in Oxford, Mississippi, on or about October 1, 1962.

Identical motions to dismiss were filed by all of the defendants in each case, and the issues being the same, collective memorandum briefs were submitted by the parties and these…