MICHAEL v. COCKERELL

No. 5567.

161 F.2d 163 (1947)

MICHAEL v. COCKERELL, County Manager and Director of Finance, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 9, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Fulcher and John Locke Green, both of Arlington, Va., for appellant.

W. Carrington Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Abram P. Staples, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, and Walter E. Rogers, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a suit instituted in the court below to enjoin the assessment or collection of the state poll tax in the cities and counties comprising the Eighth Congressional District of Virginia. The plaintiff in the court below was Lawrence Michael, the nominee for Congress of the Republican Party in that district in the 1946 congressional election; and the defendants were the various Commissioners of Revenue and...

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