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DOUGLAS v. CITY OF JEANNETTE

No. 7793.

130 F.2d 652 (1942)

DOUGLAS et al. v. CITY OF JEANNETTE, PA., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Reargued June 15, 1942.

Decided August 31, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred B. Trescher, of Greensburg, Pa. (Kunkle, Walthour & Trescher, of Greensburg, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Joseph F. Rutherford, of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for appellees.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, JONES, and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges.

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs,1 members of a sect known as Jehovah's Witnesses, brought suit in the district court for themselves and "for all Jehovah's Witnesses throughout the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and adjoining states" to enjoin the defendant city of Jeannette and its Mayor from enforcing against them and other members of the Jehovah's Witnesses a certain ordinance of that city, which is a municipal corporation...

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