Lacy

Lacy v. City of Monrovia

Good Law
118 Cal. Rptr. 277·1974 Cal. App. LEXIS 748·44 Cal. App. 3d 152
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 27, 1974Civ. 44257California1,675 words

Opinion

Opinion

Ashby, J.

Plaintiff Pauline Lacy (appellant) appeals from an order granting the City of Monrovia’s (respondent) motion for summary judgment.

On January 4, 1973, Esse L. Lacy presented to respondent a claim for damages. In the claim Esse L. Lacy alleged that on October 1, 1972, at approximately 4 a.m., “Police Officers of the City of Monrovia broke into my home at the above address in county territory in the County of Los Angeles, and terrorized me and my family,” and the particular act or omission on the part of respondent’s agents was “[t]he detention of me and the said members of my family, our humiliation in front of members of my family, our humiliation in front of the neighbors who were looking out of their windows as to what was going on. We were all caused embarrassment and humiliation and were detained and deprived of our liberty for about fifteen minutes. My wife was exposed to the gaze of strange men. My life and hers were threatened. Recurrence of duodenal and peptic ulcer, and further bulging of hiatus hernia,” resulting in the following damage: “Damage for detention, humiliation and embarrassment and was held and detained and deprived of our liberty for about fifteen…

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