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GOMILLION v. LIGHTFOOT

No. 17589.

270 F.2d 594 (1959)

C. G. GOMILLION et al., Appellants, v. Phil M. LIGHTFOOT, as Mayor of the City of Tuskegee, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 15, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Gray, Montgomery, Ala., Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., Robert L. Carter, New York City, for appellants.

James J. Carter, Thomas B. Hill, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Harry D. Raymon, Tuskegee, Ala., Hill, Hill, Stovall & Carter, Montgomery, Ala., for appellees.

Before JONES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The Legislature of Alabama passed a statute which changed the boundaries of the City of Tuskegee in Macon County of that State, Acts 1957, p. 185. The boundary changes reduced the area of the municipality. The plaintiffs, appellants here, are Negroes. They brought a class suit in the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the Mayor, the members of the City Council, and the Chief of Police of the City of Tuskegee, and the members...

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