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CITY OF MIAMI v. BETHEL

65 So.2d 34 (1953)

CITY OF MIAMI v. BETHEL et al.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied May 25, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S.O. Carson, J.W. Watson, Jr., John H. Wahl, Jr., and Walton Hubbard, Schroeder, Lantaff & Atkins, Miami, for appellant.

Morehead, Forrest, Brown & Gotthardt and Lawrence G. Ropes, Jr., Miami, for appellees.

SEBRING, Justice.

The City of Miami has appealed from an adverse judgment rendered in an action at law instituted by the appellee, Kelsey Bethel, to recover damages for injuries resulting to him from an alleged beating by two police officers of the municipality.

From certain evidence in the record which the jury had a right to believe, it appears that shortly prior to the alleged beating, the plaintiff, Bethel, was shooting craps with a group of friends in...

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