HILL v. ROWLAND

No. 72-1258.

474 F.2d 1374 (1973)

Mrs. Cornelius Cuthbertson HILL, Appellee, v. W. A. ROWLAND and B. S. Treadaway, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. J. Wade, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. (R. C. Carmichael, Jr., G. Patrick Hunter, Jr., and Wade & Carmichael, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

George S. Daly, Jr., Charlotte, N. C., submitted on brief, for appellee.

Frank G. Carrington, Jr., Executive Director, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc., on brief, for amicus curiae, Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Inc.

Before BOREMAN and BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, Circuit Judge.


BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

This is a civil action wherein the plaintiff, Mrs. Cornelius Cuthbertson Hill, seeks to recover compensatory and punitive damages from the defendants, police officers of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina.

On August 18, 1969, Mrs. Hill, black, a 40-year old widow, was employed as a taxi-driver in Charlotte. At about 10 A.M. on that day, she parked her cab across from, and started across the street toward, an establishment...

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