Eldon O. Haldane v. Wilhelmina Helen King Chagnon, Horace N. Freedman, Lloyd S. Nix, Allen Miller, Wilfred H. Tomlin

This appeal is from an Order of Dismissal. Appellant, plaintiff below, sought ■damages in excess of ten million dollars from two licensed California attorneys, fwo judges of the Superior Court of California, and the bailiff of one of the judges. He attempted to ground his aetion upon the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-1988 , and in one paragraph of his complaint alleged, in effect, and in .general terms, that the five defendants illegally and maliciously conspired to ■deprive him of various constitutional rights. From other portions of the complaint and from several documents- attached thereto as an exhibit and wholly “incorporated by reference,” we gain more detailed information as to circumstances giving rise to the action.

It appears that appellant was a party to a divorce action in the state court, representing himself in propria persona. During the trial of this suit before one ■of the defendant judges, Nix, the conduct ■of appellant caused the judge to confer with the two defendant-appellee attorneys and, shortly thereafter, to direct his defendant bailiff to complete and file a printed form of petition which, under California law, prayed, with respect to…