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SPAHOS v. MAYOR & COUNCILMEN OF SAVANNAH BEACH, GA.

No. 1331.

207 F.Supp. 688 (1962)

Johnny G. SPAHOS, Emory C. Bobo, T. R. Cole, Alexander P. Solomon, III, Labon F. Hodges, H. H. O'Brien, Henry H. Glisson, Robert T. Beeland, B. Taylor Smith, Regal B. Concepcion, T. S. Chu, E. H. Smart, Joe Hawkins, C. H. Cobb, William D. Smith and Milledge C. Jones v. The MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF the TOWN OF SAVANNAH BEACH, TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA, a Municipal corporation, Henry M. Buckley, Clerk of Council, J. A. Brown, Mayor, William S. Lovell, Alex Meddin, John A. Peters, Benno P. Hosti, James H. Powers and Robert L. Waters, Councilmen, and William C. Fleetwood, Councilman Elect, and Charles M. Debele, E. A. Leonard and Dr. William Weichselbaum, Jr., Board of Registrars of Chatham County, Georgia.

United States District Court S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

July 24, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Lawrence, Bouhan, Lawrence, Williams, Levy & McAlpin, Anton F. Solms, Jr., Savannah, Ga., for Mayor & Councilmen of Town of Savannah Beach, Georgia.

Aaron Kravitch, Savannah, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Dennis Pierce, Savannah, Ga., for William C. Fleetwood.

John W. Sognier, Savannah, Ga., for the Voting Registrars.

Before BELL, Circuit Judge, and SCARLETT and ELLIOTT, District Judges.

BELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are residents of Chatham County, Georgia, and all save two are residents of Savannah Beach, Georgia, a municipality therein. They claim violation of their civil rights as afforded them under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and rely on Baker v. Carr, 1962, 369 U.S. 186, 82 S.Ct. 691, 7 L.Ed.2d 663, for jurisdiction, justiciability and standing to sue.

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