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BEVINS v. PRINDABLE

No. 383.

39 F.Supp. 708 (1941)

BEVINS et al. v. PRINDABLE, Sheriff, et al.

District Court, E. D. Illinois.

June 17, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Walter Grossman, of Belleville, Ill., and Louis Orr, of East St. Louis, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Harry Flanders, of Eldorado, Ill., for defendant officials of Saline County, Ill.

George F. Kelling, of Belleville, Ill., for defendant officials of St. Clair County, Ill.

Montgomery S. Winning, of Springfield, Ill., for defendant officials of State of Illinois.

Before EVANS, Circuit Judge, and LINDLEY and WHAM, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is a suit by members of a group known as Jehovah's Witnesses on behalf of themselves and others of the same group seeking to enjoin defendants, who are officials of the State of Illinois and of St. Clair and Saline Counties in said state, from enforcing in said counties section 471, chapter 38 of the Revised Statutes of Illinois, in a manner that will interfere with the distribution in said counties by Jehovah's Witnesses of books and pamphlets published...

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