BRUCE v. RIDDLE

No. 79-1213.

631 F.2d 272 (1980)

Tom S. BRUCE, Appellant, v. C. Daniel RIDDLE; I. H. Gibson; Mike Fair; Melvin Pace; John L. Bauer; W. Bentley Hines; Johnnie M. Smith; W. Shannon Linning; Larry H. McCalla; Marshall L. Cason; J. Harlon Riggins; W. B. Bennett; Charles F. Styles; and Clyde E. Morgan, Individually and as Members of the Greenville County Council and Greenville County; Robert T. Ashmore; E. A. Peddycord; John Burgess; W. S. Farmer, Jr., Individually and as Representatives of Northwest Property Owners Association, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Camden Lewis, Columbia, S. C. (Barnes, Austin & Lightsey, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

Mark R. Holmes, Greenville, S. C. (J. D. Todd, Jr., Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, SPROUSE, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, District Judge.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by Tom S. Bruce, the plaintiff, in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 from a decision of the District Court granting the motion of individual defendants for judgment on the pleadings pursuant to Rule 12(c), F.R.Civ.P. The action was brought by Bruce against Greenville County, South Carolina, the defendant below, and the members of County Council, both in their official and individual capacities. The complaint demanded...

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