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TRUITT v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

No. 12981.

278 F.2d 819 (1960)

Bennie TRUITT, Appellant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

June 1, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennie Truitt, Madison, Ill., for appellant.

Grenville Beardsley, Atty. Gen., William C. Wines, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., Raymond S. Sarnow, A. Zola Groves, Edward M. White, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for appellee.

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

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff filed this suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, naming the State of Illinois as "respondent" and seeking damages in the sum of $790,000. Plaintiff appeared pro se, and apparently prepared his pleadings without legal assistance. Because plaintiff was unable to be personally present at the oral argument before this Court, we entered an order that the case would be submitted upon the briefs without...

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