Legal Opinion
Davis v. Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided August 21, 1980No. CIV-80-131-DPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DAUGHERTY, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, a state prisoner, has filed a Civil Rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which he states that the State of Oklahoma is liable for his condition of blindness from ingestion of methanol alcohol arising from the following facts:
“Inmate Charles Hiskey # 69469, smuggled the methanol in to the institution through the west gate and sold it to several inmates including myself, telling us that it wa's ever clear grain alcohol. We drank it and became very ill and I was left legally blind as a result of the methyl alcohol. The damage it…
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