SMITH v. BOYD

No. 90-2931.

945 F.2d 1041 (1991)

Clark Lee SMITH, Appellant, v. Julian BOYD; Laverta Barns; Gloria Blocker; Dav Kovac, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark Lee Smith, pro se.

Edward J. Hanlon, St. Louis, Mo. (James J. Wilson and Edward J. Hanlon, on the brief), for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, FAGG, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Clark Lee Smith appeals from the district court's1 order sua sponte dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims against defendants under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). We affirm.

Smith was a pretrial detainee at the St. Louis Municipal Jail. He filed a pro se complaint claiming that between December 1988 and May 1989, jail officials violated his civil...

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