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ROBERTS v. PIERCE

No. 24581.

398 F.2d 954 (1968)

Alton Wayne ROBERTS, Appellant, v. Laurens PIERCE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 22, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Dan Coit, Joe R. Odom, Meridian, Miss., for appellant.

Thomas D. Bourdeaux, Meridian, Miss., for appellees.

Before GEWIN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and HUGHES, District Judge.

HUGHES, District Judge:

This is a diversity suit filed by Alton Wayne Roberts against Laurens Pierce and Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., for assault and battery, alleged to have been committed on Roberts by Pierce in the course of his employment with CBS. After a hung jury necessitated the declaration of a mistrial, the district judge entered a judgment for the defendants. We reverse.

Pierce is a news cameraman for CBS who, on January 27, 1965, was engaged...

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