SHELAEFF v. GROVES

No. 21135-S.

27 F.Supp. 1018 (1939)

SHELAEFF v. GROVES et al.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

June 17, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Bodisco and John W. Herron, both of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Earl Warren, Atty. Gen., and F. Walter French, Deputy Atty. Gen., for defendants George H. Payne and Donn Shields.


ST. SURE, District Judge.

The question is as to the liability of public officers for the wrongful death of a youth following participation in a boxing contest.

The alien father of an eighteen-year-old son seeks damages against a veterans organization under whose auspices the contest was held, a licensed physician who observed the physical condition of the boy before the bout, and the members of the State Athletic Commission and its chief inspector.

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