Hardin v. Garmon

L. CHARLES WRIGHT, Retired Appellate Judge.

Edie Houseal died while incarcerated by the City of Gadsden (City).

In 1989 Josephine Hardin, as the personal representative of Houseal’s estate, filed an action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. The estate sued the City and a number of City and County officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Alabama wrongful death statute. The court entered a summary judgment in favor of most of the individual defendants on the § 1983 claim; the case then went to trial on both claims against the City and the Chief of Police, in…