Letchworth v. Gay

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that, as of 1995, “this statute has been cited in reported cases only three times” during the statute’s “entire two hundred year history”
• noting the statute had only been cited three times prior to the court’s consideration in 1995
• the plaintiff alleged the defendant failed to protect against an assault by other prisoners, implying the deputy had some control over incarcerated individuals in the prison
• “provides damages to prison detainees and inmates . . . for conduct by prison officials ‘intended by the jailers’ to cause harm to them or where the jailor was criminally negligent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).