PECKHAM v. SCANLON

No. 11837.

241 F.2d 761 (1957)

Everett James PECKHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. M. P. SCANLON et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernst Liebman, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Latham Castle, William C. Wines, Chicago, Ill., Francis X. Riley, Chicago, Ill., John Gutknecht, State's Atty. of Cook County, Chicago, Ill., Gordon B. Nash, Charles D. Snewind, Meyer H. Goldstein, William S. White, Jr., Edward J. Fleming, Asst. State's Attys., Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for defendants-appellees.

Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and MAJOR and SWAIM, Circuit Judges.


MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff pro se commenced this action for damages and equitable relief predicated upon Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Title 8 U.S.C.A. § 47 (now Title 42 U.S. C.A. §§ 1983 and 1985) and Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343. The complaint consists of nineteen typewritten pages and contains more than seven thousand words. Mr. Charles Liebman, counsel appointed by this court, has filed a brief...

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