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TAYLOR v. HOUSTON

No. 11819.

211 F.2d 427 (1954)

TAYLOR v. HOUSTON et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Leroy H. McKinney and Fred G. Minnis, Washington, D. C., submitted on the brief for appellant.

Messrs. Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel for the Dist. of Columbia, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Harry L. Walker and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., submitted on the brief for appellees. Messrs. C. Beldon White, II, Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Edward A. Beard, Assistant Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., at time record was filed, entered appearances for appellees.

Before PRETTYMAN, WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In a complaint filed in the District Court on December 3, 1952, appellant alleged that appellees committed an assault and battery upon him on May 18, 1951. The complaint and its attached affidavits alleged that appellant was non compos mentis for a period of over six months, namely, from May 30, 1951, to December 20, 1951, and implied that this period of mental incompetency was the direct result of the beating inflicted by appellees. Appellees...

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