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THOMPSON v. HEITHER

No. 12783.

235 F.2d 176 (1956)

Leslie THOMPSON, Appellant, v. Lillian HEITHER, Police Officer; Marcus Lampe, Police Officer; Edmund Bailey, Police Officer; (Ex) Police Commissioner Boos; Fred W. Piggins; Attorney at Law; Gerald K. O'Brien, Prosecuting Attorney; Ralph Garber, Chief Asst. Prosecuting Attorney; Gerald W. Groat, Judge of the Recorder's Court, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 29, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Andrews, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellant. Leslie Thompson, pro se.

Samuel Brezner and Lawrence E. Eaton, Detroit, Mich., for appellees. Samuel Brezner, Samuel J. Torina, Angelo A. Pentolino, Detroit, Mich., on the brief, for Gerald K. O'Brien, Ralph Garber and Gerald W. Groat; Paul T. Dwyer, Nathaniel H. Goldstick, and Lawrence E. Eaton, Detroit, Mich., on the brief, for Lillian Heither, Edmund Bailey, and George F. Boos.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

SIMONS, Chief Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the state court of a felony on December 7, 1950. Nearly four years thereafter, namely on March 23, 1954, he filed a complaint in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1981 et seq., claiming damages in fantastic amounts against the judge before whom the case was tried to the jury, the prosecuting attorney and...

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