FRAZIER v. WILSON

No. CIV-2-77-81.

450 F.Supp. 11 (1977)

Dewey Scott FRAZIER, Plaintiff, v. Ed WILSON, etc., Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

On the Merits August 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewey Scott Frazier, pro se.

Richard W. Pectol, Johnson City, Tenn., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

This is an action for compensatory and punitive damages by a former prisoner in the Washington County, Tennessee jail for the deprivation under color of Tennessee law by the superintendent of that institution of the plaintiff's federally-protected civil rights. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This Court has jurisdiction of such claims under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1343(4). The defendant moved in his answer...

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