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JONES v. MARVA THEATRES, INC.

Civ. No. 10704.

180 F.Supp. 49 (1960)

Linwood A. JONES, Jr., Weldon W. Christopher, and Donald K. Lyles v. MARVA THEATRES, INC., and The City of Frederick.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

January 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Tucker R. Dearing, Baltimore, Md., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

William M. Storm, Frederick, Md., and Robert E. Sher, Washington, D. C., for Marva Theatres, Inc.

Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick, Md., for City of Frederick.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

In this action Negro plaintiffs seek an injunction against segregated seating arrangements or any other kind of discrimination in a theatre, owned by the City of Frederick, Md., part of the City Hall building, on city-owned property, but leased to Marva Theatres, Inc. (Marva), a private motion picture theatre operator.

The theatre, known as the City Opera House, was built in 1875 as a place...

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