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MORRELL v. CITY OF PICAYUNE

No. 82-4153 Summary Calendar.

690 F.2d 469 (1982)

John Sebron MORRELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The CITY OF PICAYUNE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Shearman, J. Michael Cumberland, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

M. D. Tate, II, Picayune, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RANDALL and TATE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellant sued the City, its police department and various policemen, invoking 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 and asserting deprivation "of his Constitutional right to freedom from physical abuse and intimidation." This was done, he asserts, when in the course of arresting and jailing him two policemen hurled him headfirst into the concrete floor and wall of a cell. The court below concluded that the one-year Mississippi limitations provision governing actions...

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