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DAVIS v. WILLIAMS

No. 77-2636.

588 F.2d 69 (1978)

Stanley DAVIS, Appellant, v. Ralph L. WILLIAMS, Individually and as Warden, Maryland House of Correction; Mark Levine, Individually and as Commissioner of Corrections for the State of Maryland; Dr. Rene Santos, Individually and as Physician, Maryland House of Correction; the State of Maryland, By its Governor, the Honorable Marvin Mandel, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Bowen Mitchell, Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

Stephen B. Caplis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md. (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland and Clarence W. Sharp, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Div., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Stanley Davis appeals the dismissal of his complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b) for failure to prosecute. We affirm.

Davis, who was then confined in the Maryland House of Correction,1 filed a complaint by counsel on October 7, 1975, alleging that he had been denied essential medical treatment for a hip injury received before his incarceration. He sought damages and an injunction preventing...

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