Rehearing En Banc Denied October 27, 1989.
BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
Van Johnson, an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP), appeals an adverse judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in his action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by denying him recommended surgery to repair nerve damage to his arm, beating him when he complained about the denial of surgery, and failing to properly...
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