PEAY v. COX

No. 13494.

190 F.2d 123 (1951)

PEAY et al. v. COX, Registrar.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Price Dale, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellant.

M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and SIBLEY and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from the dismissal without prejudice of a suit by colored citizens of Mississippi in which they sought by a federal injunction to restrain the registrar of voters from discrimination because of color in refusing to register them as voters in violation of the law of Mississippi and contrary to the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Peay and fourteen others allege that they are native born citizens...

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