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MONK v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Civ. A. No. 6382.

87 F.Supp. 538 (1949)

MONK et al. v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM et al.

United States District Court N. D. Alabama, S. D.

December 16, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., Peter A. Hall, and David H. Hood, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for plaintiffs.

James Houston Willis, City Attorney, Thos. E. Huey, Jr., Asst. City Attorney, and Horace C. Wilkinson, Special Attorney, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants.

MULLINS, Chief Judge.

This is a class action brought by the plaintiffs, who are Negro citizens of the City of Birmingham, for and on behalf of themselves and all other Negro citizens of said City who are similarly situated and who own real estate in said City that is affected by certain zoning ordinances of said City. The zoning provisions involved are Sections 1604 and 1605 of the General City Code of Birmingham, 1944, and Ordinance No. 709-F. For convenience these...

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