FREEMAN v. ELGIN SWEEPER CO.

Nos. 88-8115, 88-8588.

885 F.2d 825 (1989)

Ricky Anthony FREEMAN, Sr. and Annette Brown, the parents of Ricky Anthony Freeman, Jr., and Xavier Brown, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The ELGIN SWEEPER COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Ricky Anthony FREEMAN, Sr., and Annette Brown, the parents of Ricky Anthony Freeman, Jr., and Xavier Brown, an infant, by Annette Brown, her Natural Mother, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF La GRANGE, Henry Abernathy, Edwin Gore, Byron Hurst, Charles Joseph, Glenn Robinson, William Whorton, La Grange City Councilmen, and Gardner Newnan, Mayor of the City of La Grange, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 10, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherry L. Stenson, LaGrange, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Malcolm P. Smith, G. Melton Mobley, Eve A. Appelbaum, Gorby, Reeves, Moraitakis & Whitman, Atlanta, Ga., David H. Tisinger, Paul E. Weathington, Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Virginia Jane Reed, Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks, Atlanta, Ga., for Cantrell.

J. Ronald Mullins, Jr., Allen C. Levi, Kelly, Denney, Pease & Allison, Columbus, Ga., for R. Tibbets.

Before HILL and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and POINTER, Chief District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This litigation with, in our court, two different cases (88-8115 and 88-8588), three plaintiffs and approximately 15 separate defendants, actually involves a traffic collision between a bicycle operated by the plaintiffs' child and a street sweeper operated by the City of La Grange, Georgia. The child died as a result of the collision.

Nothing about this mishap is said to have included intentional deprivation by any governmental operator of the...

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