MORRISON v. DAVIS

No. 16886.

252 F.2d 102 (1958)

deLesseps S. MORRISON, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Provosty A. Dayries, Individually and as Superintendent of Police of the City of New Orleans and New Orleans Public Service, Inc., Appellants, v. Abraham L. DAVIS, Jr. and William R. Adams, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1958.

Writ of Certiorari Denied May 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of La., George M. Ponder, 1st Asst. Atty. Gen., Alvin J. Liska, City Atty. of New Orleans, Gibbons Burke, New Orleans, La. (Joseph H. Hurndon, Ernest L. Salatich, Asst. City Attys., New Orleans, La., William P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State of Louisiana. A. J. Waechter, Jr., Floyd W. Lewis, New Orleans, La., on the brief), for New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., New Orleans, La. (Earl J. Amedee, Israel M. Augustine, Jr., Louis Berry, Robert F. Collins, Alvin Jones, Revius O. Ortique, Jr., New Orleans, La., of counsel), for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and JONES, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied May 26, 1958. See 78 S.Ct. 1008.

PER CURIAM.

This appeal from a final injunction following a summary judgment for the plaintiffs declaring unconstitutional all laws of the State of Louisiana requiring segregation of the races on buses, street cars, street railways or trolley buses, and enjoining defendant officials and public service corporations from enforcing such statutes is controlled in all respects by Browder v. Gayle (the City...

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