PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION v. MITCHELL

No. 59 C 2050.

182 F.Supp. 681 (1960)

PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a corporation, and Modern Community Developers, Inc., a corporation, Plaintiffs, v. James C. MITCHELL et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 4, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Willard Wirtz, Newton N. Minow, John W. Hunt, Richard G. Kahn and Howard Hoosin, Chicago, Ill., Stevenson, Rifkind and Wirtz, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for plaintiffs.

William R. Englehardt and Allyn J. Franke, of Norman, Engelhardt & Zimmerman, Chicago, Ill., Gerald C. Snyder and Lewis D. Clarke, of Snyder, Clarke, Dalziel, Holmquist & Johnson, Waukegan, Ill., Thomas A. Matthews, Byron S. Matthews, John B. Moser, George B. Christensen, Harold A. Smith and Douglas C. Moir, of Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, Edward J. Kelly, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


PERRY, District Judge.

In this proceeding, plaintiffs complain that the defendant officials of the Village of Deerfield and of the Deerfield Park District, acting under color of law and using their offices as a cloak, have conspired with the other named defendants and have violated the civil rights of the plaintiffs contrary to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and contrary to the provisions of Title 42, Sections 1981...

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