ELMORE v. RICE

Civil Action No. 1702.

72 F.Supp. 516 (1947)

ELMORE v. RICE et al.

District Court, E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

July 12, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold R. Boulware, of Columbia, S. C., and Thurgood Marshall and Robert L. Carter, both of New York City, for plaintiff.

Charles B. Elliott, Irvine F. Belser, and Christie Benet, all of Columbia, S. C., P. H. McEachin, of Florence, S. C., J. Perrin Anderson, of Greenwood, S. C., W. Brantley Harvey, of Beaufort, S. C., Edgar A. Brown, of Barnwell, S. C., William P. Baskin, of Bishopville, S. C., and Yancey A. McLeod, of Columbia, S. C., for defendants.


WARING, District Judge.

Plaintiff, George Elmore, is a duly and legally qualified elector under the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of South Carolina and is subject to none of the disqualifications for voting thereunder. This suit is brought by him to test the legality of the action of the defendants in not permitting him and other qualified Negro electors to vote in the Democratic Party's Primary held on August 13, 1946, in Richland County...

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