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BORCHERT v. CITY OF RANGER, TEX.

Civ. A. No. 330.

42 F.Supp. 577 (1941)

BORCHERT et al. v. CITY OF RANGER, TEX. et al.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Fort Worth Division.

November 24, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Walter A. Nelson, of Fort Worth, Tex., for plaintiffs.

L. R. Pearson, of Ranger, Tex., for defendant City of Ranger.

Dick Harbin, of Dublin, Tex., for defendant City of Dublin.

D. P. Parker, City Atty., of Brownwood, Tex., for defendant City of Comanche.

W. B. Baker and D. L. Snodgrass, both of Coleman, Tex., for defendant City of Coleman.

JAMES C. WILSON, District Judge.

These plaintiffs, calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses, were prosecuted under ordinances of the defendant cities for preaching their faith through the distribution of books, pamphlets and by sermons upon phonographs and here seek injunctions that would restrain defendants from doing so in the future.

There is a little difference between the defendants in the character of such prosecutions, also in their pleadings and admissions...

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