LANSDOWN v. WORTHEY

No. 71-1080.

458 F.2d 485 (1972)

Donald O. LANSDOWN and Melvin D. Sears, Appellants, v. Dr. F. E. WORTHEY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Fisher, Woolsey, Fisher, Clark & Whiteaker, Springfield, Mo., for appellee.

Elwyn L. Cady, Jr., Independence, Mo., for appellants.

Before GIBSON and HEANEY, Circuit Judges, and VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.


VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.

This action was brought under 42 U. S.C.A. § 1983. A verdict was directed against plaintiffs, appellants herein, at the close of their evidence. We affirm.

Appellants claim that defendant, who is a medical doctor, deprived each of them, to their injury, of certain constitutional rights and privileges in violation of § 1983, supra, in that he failed to render medical service to them after an alleged beating...

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