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SMITH v. LEMON

No. 26517.

442 F.2d 1195 (1971)

Virgil Lee SMITH, Petitioner and Appellant, v. Paul R. LEMON, Manager, Cotton Textile Mill Industries, San Quentin State Prison, et al., Respondents and Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 22, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil Lee Smith, in pro. per.

Evelle J. Younger, Cal. Atty. Gen., Derald E. Granberg, Karl S. Mayer, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for respondents and appellees.

Before CHAMBERS, CARTER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Smith, a prisoner at California's state prison at San Quentin, lost one finger and a second was badly damaged while working in the textile mill. It was the sort of thing on which a free man would ordinarily have workman's compensation coverage.

Apparently believing the civil rights acts a catch-all for miscellaneous grievances, he filed action No. 50,773 in the Northern District of California. This was dismissed with prejudice. Then he filed action...

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