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DINWIDDIE v. BROWN

No. 15790.

230 F.2d 465 (1956)

Leona DINWIDDIE, Appellant, v. R. J. BROWN et al., Appellees. Anne Elizabeth ROARK, Appellant, v. Gordon T. WEST et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. H. Spears, Pasadena, Cal., for appellants.

Milburn E. Nutt, Guy Rogers, Clyde Fillmore, Jack G. Banner, Elmer H. Parish, H. W. Fillmore, Wichita Falls, Tex., for appellees.

Before BORAH, TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The sole question presented by these appeals is whether the complaint in either of the two actions involved here states a claim within the jurisdiction of a federal court, in the absence of diversity of citizenship. Although the cases are in most respects different from one another, they were both brought for alleged violations of the civil rights statutes,1 and were dismissed on identical...

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