BATTS v. CITY OF BATON ROUGE

No. CA 85 1362.

501 So.2d 302 (1986)

Sandra K. BATTS v. The CITY OF BATON ROUGE and Jeffrey L. Wesley.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1987.

Writ Denied March 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Falcon, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee Sandra K. Batts.

Samuel R. Cicero, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant The City of Baton Rouge.

Before GOVER L. COVINGTON, C.J., and LANIER and ALFORD, JJ.


LANIER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages in tort by the victim of a crime which asserts that a police officer and the municipality which employed him invaded the victim's privacy by providing the victim's name and address and the details of the crime to a newspaper which subsequently published the information. The trial court rendered judgment against the municipality for $10,000, but dismissed the claim against the police officer. The municipality took this suspensive...

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