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WILLIAMS v. HOWARD JOHNSON'S RESTAURANT

No. 7867.

268 F.2d 845 (1959)

Charles E. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. HOWARD JOHNSON'S RESTAURANT, Russell V. Keys and Mary Barnes, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Williams, Lexington, Va., pro se.

James H. Simmonds, Arlington, Va. (Howard M. Murphy, Arlington, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Charles E. Williams, an attorney in the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, brings this suit on his own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated against Howard Johnson's Restaurant in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, complaining that he was wrongfully refused service by the restaurant on the morning of April 20, 1958, because he is a Negro. He seeks a declaratory judgment that his exclusion on racial grounds amounted...

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