WHATLEY v. CITY OF DALLAS

No. 05-87-00620-CV.

758 S.W.2d 301 (1988)

Ronnie WHATLEY, Appellant, v. CITY OF DALLAS, Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertran T. Bader, III, Dallas, for appellant.

Robert S. Dickey, Dallas, for appellee.

Before DEVANY, STEWART and HECHT, JJ.


HECHT, Justice.

Thrice now Ronnie Whatley has sued the City of Dallas to recover damages for a violation of his civil rights which occurred over a decade ago when Dallas police officer John Vito Del Gaudio used excessive force in arresting him. In this the latest of the three cases Whatley asserts the claim, assigned to him by Del Gaudio, that the City, under its self-administered liability protection plan, wrongly refused to defend Del Gaudio in Whatley's original...

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