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TOOMBS v. FORTSON

Civ. A. No. 7883.

205 F.Supp. 248 (1962)

Henry J. TOOMBS, Mrs. George Taylor Douglas, Gordon G. Johnson and John L. Glenn, Plaintiffs, v. Ben W. FORTSON, Jr., as Secretary of State of Georgia, Eugene Gunby, Ordinary of Fulton County, Georgia, Katherine E. Mann, Ordinary of DeKalb County, Georgia, James F. White, Ordinary of Fayette County, Georgia, A. B. Tollison, Ordinary of Forsyth County, Georgia, Robert F. Abercrombie, Ordinary of Douglas County, Georgia, Jim W. Dickerson, Ordinary of Cherokee County, Georgia, et al., Defendants.

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

May 25, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis Schackelford, Hamilton Lokey, Atlanta, Ga., Joseph B. Cummings, Augusta, Ga., Edward S. White, Isreal Katz, Atlanta, Ga., William P. Gunter, A. R. Kenyon, Gainesville, Ga., Maurice N. Maloof, C. Baxter Jones, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., J. Quinton Davidson, Columbus, Ga., Albert P. Reichert, Macon, Ga., John E. Simpson, Savannah, Ga., Raymond M. Reed, Marietta, Ga., John W. Sognier, Savannah, Ga., for plaintiffs.

King & Spalding, Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., State of Georgia, B. D. Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., E. Freeman Leverett, Elberton, Ga., Lamar W. Sizemore, Atlanta, Ga., George P. Dillard, Decatur, Ga., for defendants.

Before TUTTLE and BELL, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, District Judge.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is the second suit to be tried before a three-judge court sitting in and for the Northern District of Georgia, in which Georgia citizens seek relief from alleged unconstitutional inequalities existing under the present composition of the Georgia state governmental structure. The first suit, Sanders v. Gray, D.C., 203 F.Supp. 158, resulted in the court's holding that the county unit system by which political...

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