JONES v. SHERRILL

No. 85-5828.

827 F.2d 1102 (1987)

Janice JONES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles E. SHERRILL, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Charles, Richard M. Riebeling, Susan Emery McGannon, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Charles E. Sherrill, pro se.

Vance Cramb, Jr. (argued), Sandra F. Jones, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Before ENGEL and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and HOLSCHUH, District Judge.


BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

This action arose out of a highspeed car chase in which plaintiff's husband, Audie Gaston Jones, was killed. Two police officers of White House, Tennessee, were attempting to apprehend Charles Sherrill, a traffic offender, when Sherrill's car crossed the center line of the highway and collided with Jones's car. Sherrill had been furloughed that day from the Nashville and Davidson County Metropolitan Jail. Janice Jones brought suit under 42 U...

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