KNIGHT v. CITY OF EAST CHICAGO

No. 37A03-9003-CV-107.

569 N.E.2d 995 (1991)

James KNIGHT, Appellant (Defendant below), v. State of Indiana, On the Relation of CITY OF EAST CHICAGO, and Linley E. Pearson, Attorney General of Indiana, Appellees (Plaintiffs below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, Third District.

April 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrance L. Smith, Smith & DeBonis, East Chicago, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Thomas D. Strodtman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellees.


HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant James Knight, controller for the city of East Chicago, appeals the trial court's judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee State of Indiana in the State's action to recover $76,276.00 in misappropriated public funds.

The facts favorable to the judgment disclose that from 1972 to 1975, Robert Pastrick, mayor of East Chicago, directed Joseph Rakowski, superintendent of the East Chicago Sanitary District, to use public...

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