EASTERLY v. DEMPSTER

No. 1950.

112 F.Supp. 214 (1953)

EASTERLY et al. v. DEMPSTER, Mayor et al.

United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

May 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robertson & Roundtree, Washington, D. C., Acuff & Acuff, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Clarence Blackburn, John T. Gilbertson and Max Morrison, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants.


ROBERT L. TAYLOR, District Judge.

Plaintiffs have moved for summary judgment under Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.

Plaintiffs, four in number, are members of the Negro race. The jurisdiction of the Court is invoked under Title 8, §§ 41 and 43, U.S.C., R.S.1977 and 1979; the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1331...

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