BOWIE v. PROCUNIER

No. 86-2633. Summary Calendar.

808 F.2d 1142 (1987)

Elisha BOWIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Raymond PROCUNIER, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elisha Bowie, Pro se.

Adrian L. Young, Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RUBIN, and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Bowie, a Texas prisoner, brought this tort suit in the form of a civil rights action against the head of the prison system and his unit's warden. His complaint is that a piece of bark put one of his eyes out while he was chopping wood because prison authorities did not provide adequate safety equipment to workers such as he, his demand one for several millions of dollars in actual and punitive damages. The trial court dismissed his action for failure to...

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