Title: Saunders v. Mullins
Citation: 412 So. 2d 245
Docket Number: 53205
State: Mississippi
Issuer: Mississippi Supreme Court
Date: April 7, 1982

412 So. 2d 245 (1982) Augustin Lucas SAUNDERS, Jr. v. M.W. MULLINS, The City of Jackson, Mississippi and Ray Pope, Chief of Police, City of Jackson, Mississippi. No. 53205. Supreme Court of Mississippi. April 7, 1982. Courtney &amp; Courtney, H.A. Courtney, Jackson, for appellant. Timmie Hancock, Jackson, for appellees. En Banc. PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court: Heretofore this Court was of the opinion that the trial court erroneously sustained demurrers to the declaration of the plaintiff which proposed to allege a cause of action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983 for deprivation of his civil rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We were formerly of the opinion the trial court erred in sustaining the demurrers. However, we are now of the opinion that we erred because of the dictates in Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of New York, 436 U.S. 658, 98 S. Ct. 2018, 56 L. Ed. 2d 611 (1978), which states in pertinent part as follows: *246 In the declaration before us we do not find an allegation of a municipal policy, custom, edict or act that may be fairly said to represent official policy. We therefore, conclude that we erred in our former opinion and it is withdrawn and this writing becomes the opinion of the Court. The order of the trial court in sustaining the demurrers of the defendants is hereby reinstated and that judgment affirmed. AFFIRMED. SUGG, P.J., and WALKER, BROOM, ROY NOBLE LEE, BOWLING, HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE and DARDEN, JJ., concur. SMITH, P.J., took no part.