JORDAN v. KELLY

No. 14439-3.

223 F.Supp. 731 (1963)

Leon JORDAN, Plaintiff, v. C. M. KELLY, Chief of Police, James D. Theisen, Officer, and Albert W. Thomson, Roy P. Swanson, Davis K. Jackson, Clinton W. Kanaga, Jr., H. Roe Bartle, ex officio, as Members of Board of Police Commissioners of Kansas City, Missouri, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Missouri, W. D.

November 20, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard S. Hughes, Jr., and Harold L. Holliday, Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

W. H. Bates, Secretary-Attorney Board of Police Commissioners, Kansas City, Mo., for defendants.

James H. Ottman, of Shook Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., special counsel for defendant Clinton W. Kanaga, Jr.


DUNCAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff instituted this suit in this court against the defendants to recover the sum of $50,000.00 actual and $50,000.00 punitive damages on Count I for alleged violation of § 1 of the 14th Amendment, and § 1983 Title 42 U.S.C.A. (the Civil Rights statute). Plaintiff alleges among other things:

"3. That defendants, Albert W. Thomson, Roy P. Swanson, Davis K. Jackson, Clinton W. Kanaga, Jr., and H. Roe Bartle, ex officio...

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