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MYERS v. DAVIS

No. CIV-4-78-24.

467 F.Supp. 8 (1978)

Jimmy W. MYERS, Plaintiff, v. Larry B. DAVIS et al., etc., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Winchester Division.

December 4, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerre M. Hood, and Robert S. Peters, Winchester, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Joe R. Hickerson, and Ben P. Lynch, Winchester, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

This is a civil action for money damages for the deprivation of the plaintiff's civil rights, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). The complaint alleges that, on an isolated occasion, the two individual defendants, as police officers for the city of Cowan, Tennessee and acting under color of Tennessee law, ud an excessive and unreasonable amount of force upon him. The plaintiff contends that...

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