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BOWDEN v. CITY OF FORT SMITH

Nos. 12207, 12208.

135 F.2d 981 (1943)

BOWDEN et al. v. CITY OF FORT SMITH et al. SAME v. GEREN, Sheriff of Sebastian County, Ark.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 9, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Mark E. Woolsey, of Ozark, Ark., for appellants.

No brief for appellees.

Before STONE, SANBORN, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

The appellants in each of these appeals are members of Jehovah's Witnesses. On September 12, 1940, they were going from house to house in the residential section of the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas, playing phonograph records of Bible lectures and distributing booklets, leaflets and periodicals setting forth the views of Christianity held by Jehovah's Witnesses. At the same time they solicited contributions...

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