COLEMAN v. GODSEY

No. 13746.

249 F.2d 522 (1957)

John H. COLEMAN, Appellant, v. Wiley W. GODSEY, Acting Chairman, Board of Revocation and Review of Hackers' Identification Licenses, and Robert E. McLaughlin, et al., Board of District of Columbia Commissioners, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James Shenos, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Lyman J. Umstead, Asst. Corp. Counsel, of the Dist. of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Appellant was for many years a duly licensed taxicab driver with a good record. On August 2, 1956, a woman he had never seen was a passenger in his cab. She afterwards charged in writing that he made indecent and abnormal proposals to her, in disgusting language which she purported to remember and reproduce at length and in detail.

The Board of Revocation and Review of Hackers' Identification Licenses held a hearing, at which appellant and the...

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