Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government v. Middleton

GANT, Judge.

Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government appeals from a judgment in the Fayette Circuit Court awarding damages to the Appellee in the amount of $3,122.90, consisting of a $1,500.00 verdict by the jury against the Appellant and a police officer employed by the Appellant, together with $1,622.90 awarded by the court against the same parties for attorney’s fees and costs incurred by the Appel-lee in the manner which will be hereinafter set out.

The facts in the case were in considerable dispute. Appellee testified that at approximately 4:30 in the morning of August 28, 1972, he was…