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HACKLEY v. ART BUILDERS, INC.

Civ. No. 11807.

179 F.Supp. 851 (1960)

Brennie E. HACKLEY, Jr., et ux. v. ART BUILDERS, INC., Ward & Bosely Co., Inc., Harford County Metropolitan Commission, County Commissioners of Harford County, Maryland, Colonel Roy Muth, et al.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

January 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Howard, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

William S. James, Bel Air, Md., and Richard W. Case, Baltimore, Md., for Harford Co. Metropolitan Commission.

Robert H. Archer, Bel Air, Md., and Richard W. Case, Baltimore, Md., for County Commissioners of Harford County.

Richard W. Case, Edward O. Clarke, Jr., Roger D. Redden and Smith, Somerville & Case, Baltimore, Md., for Ward & Bosely Co., Inc. and Art Builders, Inc.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald B. MacGuineas, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Leon H. A. Pierson, U. S. Atty., and William J. Evans, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for Colonel Roy Muth.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs are Negroes who attempted to purchase a home in Edgewood Meadows, a private real estate development near the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood, Harford County, Maryland. The developers refused to sell to plaintiffs solely because of their race. Plaintiffs thereupon brought this class action against (a) the developers, (b) the Harford County Metropolitan Commission, which supplies water and sewage disposal service in the Edgewood Sanitary...

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