Legal Opinion
Maynard v. City of Madison
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided February 24, 1981No. 80-210PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGartzke, P.J.
Defendants appeal from a judgment on a special verdict which found the City of Madison, Police Chief Couper and Police Captain Scrivner negligent as to maintaining the confidentiality of plaintiff’s identity as a paid police informer, and awarded plaintiff $21,800 damages. We affirm the judgment as to the city and reverse the judgment as to defendants Couper and Scrivner.
The facts are largely undisputed. Plaintiff became a paid informer for the Madison Police Department in 1971 at the request of a city police officer who assured her that her identity would be kept confidential. A similar…
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