HILL v. SHELANDER

No. 90-1363.

924 F.2d 1370 (1991)

Steven HILL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William SHELANDER, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 12, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia F. Straub, Peoria, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

John E. Cassidy, III, Cassidy & Mueller, Peoria, Ill. and Stewart J. Umholtz, Office of the State's Atty., Tazewell County, Pekin, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and GORDON, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 26, 1991.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Steven Hill, the plaintiff in this Section 1983 action, seeks damages for injuries inflicted upon him by Sergeant William Shelander, a jail guard. Hill appeals from a grant of summary judgment in defendant's favor. On December 14, 1983, Hill was imprisoned in Tazewell County Jail in Illinois awaiting his sentence following a conviction for burglary. Shelander got into an argument...

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