Nedd v. State

SARTAIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Jerry Lee Nedd, an inmate at the state penitentiary at Angola, brought this action for serious personal injuries sustained as a result of an attack with a cane knife by a fellow inmate, McKinley Peterson, on January 27, 1968. Several of Nedd’s fingers were cut off. He alleged negligence on the part of the penitentiary officials or employees for failing to keep Nedd and Peterson in separate areas of Angola because of a prior serious incident between the two which occurred on August 10, 1958, also at the penitentiary.

The trial judge dismissed plaintiff’s suit, holding…