LEE v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS, ETC.

No. 5622.

644 P.2d 189 (1982)

Sarah E. LEE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of James E. Lee, Deceased, and on behalf of James E. Lee, Sr., Sarah E. Lee, Mary Louise Byrd, Jeanine Lyne Lee, Leshia Maria Lee, Paula Rae Lee, and Craig Eugene Lee, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF SWEETWATER; Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department; the City of Rock Springs; Louis Muir, Rock Springs Chief of Police; Lt. Robert Overy, Rock Springs City Police Department; and Jaime S. Green, Rock Springs City Police Department, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

April 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Shockey, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, for appellants.

Richard E. Day and Patricia M. Baird, Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, P.C., Casper, for appellee Bd. of County Com'rs of the County of Sweetwater.

Eugene S. Hames, Wood, Ris & Hames, P.C., Denver, Colo., and John D. Rossetti, Greenhalgh, Bussart, West & Rossetti, Rock Springs, for appellees Sweetwater County Sheriff's Dept., the City of Rock Springs, Louis Muir, Lt. Robert Overy, and Jaime S. Greene.

Before RAPER, THOMAS, ROONEY and BROWN, JJ., and SAWYER, D.J.


BROWN, Justice.

James E. Lee committed suicide while incarcerated in the Rock Springs city jail. Appellants are the surviving parents and siblings of the deceased.

In their amended complaint appellants allege seven or eight causes of action in 33 paragraphs.1 In each successive cause of action appellants incorporate and reallege all of the preceding allegations. In their second cause of action appellants also incorporate and reallege...

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