SMITH v. FREEMAN

No. 90-1193.

921 F.2d 1120 (1990)

Ronald SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jessie FREEMAN, Police Officer, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig M. Cornish, Cornish and Dell'Olio, Colorado Springs, Colo., for plaintiff-appellant.

Theodore S. Halaby and James B. Buck, Halaby & McCrea, Denver, Colo., and William A. Palmer, City Atty., Fountain, Colo., for defendant-appellee.

Before ANDERSON, BALDOCK and EBEL, Circuit Judges.


STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is before the court solely on the matter of attorney's fees. We remand on one issue and affirm the remainder.1

The underlying civil rights action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, arose out of an incident in which Ronald Smith allegedly cut himself while cleaning a goose and then went to the local fire department in search of a bandage. When the firemen insisted that he...

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