HOLT v. CITY OF RICHMOND

Nos. 71-2185, 71-2186.

459 F.2d 1093 (1972)

Curtis HOLT, Sr., Appellee, v. CITY OF RICHMOND et al., Appellants. Curtis HOLT, Sr., Appellant, v. CITY OF RICHMOND et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 3, 1972.

Certiorari Denied June 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace H. Edwards and John S. Davenport, III, Richmond, Va. (Conard B. Mattox, Jr., City Atty., Daniel T. Balfour, Asst. City Atty., City of Richmond, and Thomas E. Crosley, Jr., Matthew N. Ott, Jr., and Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants in No. 71-2185 and for appellees in No. 71-2186.

W. H. C. Venable, Richmond, Va. (John M. McCarthy, Richmond, Va., Thomas F. Coates, III, and Everette G. Allen, Jr., Richmond, Va., and Venable & McCarthy and Hirschler & Fleisher, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee in No. 71-2185 and appellant in No. 71-2186.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and WINTER, CRAVEN, BUTZNER, RUSSELL and FIELD, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


Certiorari Denied June 26, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 2510.

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

We are met with the problem of the effect of "unconstitutional motivation" on the part of certain officials of the City of Richmond in agreeing with officials of Chesterfield County upon a settlement of an annexation proceeding. The District Judge, 334 F.Supp. 228, did not invalidate the annexation, which occasioned the plaintiff's appeal, but...

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