COKE v. CITY OF ATLANTA, GA.

Civ. A. No. 6733.

184 F.Supp. 579 (1960)

H. D. COKE v. CITY OF ATLANTA, GA., a Municipal Corporation of the State of Georgia and County of Fulton, William B. Hartsfield, Mayor of said City of Atlanta, Jack Gray, Terminal Manager of the Atlanta Airport Terminal, Dobbs Houses, Inc., a Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Tennessee; B. F. Buttrey, Manager of Dobbs Houses, Inc., Restaurant at the Atlanta Airport Terminal.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

January 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. Hollowell, Atlanta, Ga., Thurgood Marshall, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Peter A. Hall, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff.

J. C. Savage and Newell Edenfield, Atlanta, Ga., for City of Atlanta, Hartsfield and Gray.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., for Dobbs Houses, Inc., and Buttrey.


SLOAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a Negro man, a citizen and resident of the State of Alabama and City of Birmingham, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, brings this complaint seeking injunctive relief. The defendants are the City of Atlanta, its Mayor, its Airport Manager, Dobbs Houses, Inc., and the Manager of the Dobbs Houses, Inc., Atlanta Airport Restaurant.

Briefly, plaintiff alleges that while an interstate passenger from Birmingham...

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