MUELLER v. POWELL

No. 432.

105 F.Supp. 344 (1952)

MUELLER v. POWELL et al.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, Central D.

June 4, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor B. Harris (of Smith, Harris & Hanke), St. Louis, Mo., James T. Blair, Jr., Jefferson City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Don C. Carter, Sturgeon, Mo., R. E. Ausmus and Warren D. Welliver (of Alexander, Ausmus, Harris & Welliver), Columbia, Mo., William E. Kemp and James P. Tierney (of Kemp, Koontz, Clagett & Norquist), Kansas City, Mo., for defendants Glenn Powell & Julius Wedemier.

William E. Kemp, Elliot Norquist and James P. Tierney (of Kemp, Koontz, Clagett & Norquist), Kansas City, Mo., for defendant M. Stanley Ginn.


REEVES, Chief Judge.

By this action plaintiff seeks damages for an alleged invasion of his civil rights. He claims that he was deprived of his liberty by the defendants "under color of the authority vested in them by the statutes and regulations of the State of Missouri, * * *."

There are three counts in the complaint. The first count seeks damages perforce the provisions of Section 43, Title 8 U.S.C.A. relating to the subject of Civil Rights. By the second...

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