Linde v. Bentley

This is an appeal from a summary judg-ent for defendant in an action in which plaintiff claimed $298,000 damages against a district judge for orally instructing the clerk of the district court not to accept papers from defendant for filing until they had been reviewed by the judge.

The controversy arose when Mr. Linde, a non-lawyer, filed certain pleadings and made appearance on behalf of defendants in an action entitled, “Major Oil Company, a Wyoming corporation, Plaintiff, vs. Arthur E. Linde and Nuclear State Enterprises, Inc., Defendants” (Civil No. 14324), and the court on motion of the…