PUTMAN v. GERLOFF

No. 82-1471.

701 F.2d 63 (1983)

Andrew PUTMAN and Donald Favors, Appellants, v. Sheriff Elmer GERLOFF and Deputy Sheriff Jim Crowe, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 1, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rooney & Walsh by John L. Rooney, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

P. Dennis Barks, Berkemeyer & Barks, Hermann, Mo., and Walter D. McQuie, Jr., Montgomery City, Mo., for appellees.

Before BRIGHT, ARNOLD and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case is before the Court a second time. Plaintiffs appeal from a jury verdict for the defendants on retrial after our remand in Putman v. Gerloff, 639 F.2d 415 (8th Cir.1981). They sue under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, claiming that they have been deprived of rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. On appeal, plaintiffs contend that the District Court1

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