ROBERTS v. HOLLOCHER

No. 81-1064.

664 F.2d 200 (1981)

Roy M. ROBERTS, Appellant, v. Sgt. George HOLLOCHER; Det. Al Napier, acting with others; Det. Gregory Skinner, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard D. Vines, argued, Vines, Kreuter & Kruger, P.C., St. Louis, Mo., for Roy M. Roberts, appellant.

Joseph R. Niemann, City Counselor, John J. Fitzgibbon, Associate City Counselor, Francis M. Oates, Asst. City Counselor, argued, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before STEPHENSON and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and HANSON, Senior District Judge.


McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.

Roy M. Roberts appeals from a judgment entered in the district court1 based on a jury verdict denying appellant's action for damages for alleged deprivation of his civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In this appeal Roberts contends that the district court erred in (1) failing to give an offered instruction advising the jury to consider the case as an action between persons of equal standing and equal worth...

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