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COPLEY v. SWEET

Civ. A. No. 2630.

133 F.Supp. 502 (1955)

Marvin COPLEY, Plaintiff, v. Lucien F. SWEET, Raymond W. Fox, John M. Pikkaart, Ray Cleveland, Eric V. Brown, and William Sykes, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

July 13, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Copley in pro. per.

Farrell, Folz, Paulson & Palmer and Richard H. Paulson, Kalamazoo, Mich., for Lucien F. Sweet.

Fox, Fox & Thompson and Gould Fox, Kalamazoo, Mich., for Raymond W. Fox.

Benjamin W. Wise, Kalamazoo, Mich., for William Sykes.

Robert J. Barber, Kalamazoo, Mich., for John M. Pikkaart.

Morris & Culver and David Morris, Kalamazoo, Mich., for Ray Cleveland.

Eric V. Brown, Kalamazoo, Mich., in pro. per.

STARR, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff Marvin Copley, an inmate of the State prison of southern Michigan serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, filed complaint in forma pauperis in this court against the defendants, present and former public officials of the city and county of Kalamazoo, asking for money damages in the amount of one million seven hundred thousand dollars.

It appears that in January, 1945, upon jury trial in which he was represented by...

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