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DETROIT HOUSING COMMISSION v. LEWIS

No. 12305.

226 F.2d 180 (1955)

The DETROIT HOUSING COMMISSION, a duly authorized Department of the City of Detroit, Finlay C. Allen, President, Mary M. Streit, Vice-President, Walter J. Gessel, George A. Isabel and James H. Quello, Members; and Harry J. Durbin, Director-Secretary of the Detroit Housing Commission, Appellants, v. Walter Arthur LEWIS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

October 5, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance Ingalls, Detroit, Mich. (Paul T. Dwyer, Helen W. Miller, Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellants.

Constance Baker Motley, New York City (Willis M. Graves, Francis M. Dent, Detroit, Mich., Thurgood Marshall, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before ALLEN, McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

ALLEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court issuing a permanent injunction against The Detroit Housing Commission, its members, and Director-Secretary, in an action attacking racial segregation as claimed to be practiced in public housing projects carried on in Detroit by defendants.1 The action prayed for a declaratory judgment that the policy, custom and usage of the defendants in refusing to lease to...

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