BOSTON v. LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISS.

No. WC87-151-B-D.

744 F.Supp. 746 (1990)

Louise BOSTON, Administratrix of the Estate of Mae Evelyn Boston, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; Bill Plunk, Individually, In His Official Capacity as Chancery Clerk of Lafayette County, Mississippi or of the State of Mississippi and As Agent, Employee, and/or Servant or of Lafayette County, Mississippi or the State of Mississippi; Mel Davis, Individually, In His Official Capacity as a Special Master of Lafayette County, Mississippi or of the State of Mississippi and As Agent, Employee, and/or Servant of Lafayette County, Mississippi or of The State of Mississippi; Ricky Miller, Individually, in his official capacity as jailer of Lafayette County, Mississippi and as Agent, Employee and/or Servant of Lafayette County, Mississippi; Lyndon Carpenter, Individually, in his official capacity as Jailer of Lafayette County, Mississippi and as Agent, Employee, and/or Servant of Lafayette County, Mississippi; John Thomas, Individually, in his official capacity as jailer of Lafayette County, Mississippi, and as Agent, Employee, and/or Servant of Lafayette County, Mississippi; F.D. "Buddy" East, Individually, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Lafayette County, Mississippi and as Agent, Employee, and/or Servant of Lafayette County, Mississippi; and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, W.D.

August 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Turnage, Cleveland, Miss., for plaintiff.

R. Lloyd Arnold, Jackson, Miss., Jay Gore, III, Grenada, Miss., H. Scot Spragins, Oxford, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BIGGERS, District Judge.

Presently before the court are cross motions for summary judgment on behalf of the plaintiff and those defendants sued in their individual capacity. Because the court will deny the plaintiff's motion and grant the defendants' motion as to the plaintiff's federal constitutional claims, it reviews the facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff and incorporates...

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