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BYRD v. WILSON

No. 81-5266.

701 F.2d 592 (1983)

David Ray BYRD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. George WILSON, Department of Corrections; Dewey Sowders, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary; Doctor King; Doctor Hodge; Don Sapienza, Hospital Administrator, Kentucky State Penitentiary, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ray Byrd, pro se and Herbert A. Thornbury, Chattanooga, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Dept. of Corrections, P.F. Isaacs, Barbara H. Willett Jones, Linda Cooper, Frankfort, Ky., for defendants-appellees.

Before JONES and CONTIE, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

In this Section 1983 prisoner complaint, the inmate challenges the prison medical staff's failure to give him adequate medical treatment. The district court dismissed the complaint as frivolous and the inmate appealed. Upon review of the appellant's claim, we reverse.

Plaintiff-appellant instituted this action by filing a Section 1983 complaint in which he alleged that the prison administration and personnel exhibited deliberate indifference to...

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