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SMITH v. HOLIDAY INNS OF AMERICA, INC.

Civ. A. No. 3409.

220 F.Supp. 1 (1963)

Vasco A. SMITH, Jr., Plaintiff, v. HOLIDAY INNS OF AMERICA, INC. and James Dew, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

July 30, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avon N. Williams, Jr., and Z. Alexander Looby, of Looby & Williams, Nashville, Tenn., A. W. Willis, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., and Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley and Frank H. Heffron, New York City, for plaintiff.

William Waller, Jr., of Waller Lansden & Dortch, Nashville, Tenn., and John Dunlap, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Chief Judge.

This is a class action brought by the plaintiff on behalf of himself and all other Negroes who are similarly situated for declaratory and injunctive relief restraining the defendants from continuing their policy, practice and custom of refusing to accept Negroes as guests at the Holiday Inn-Capitol Hill motel located on James Robertson Parkway in Nashville, Tennessee.

The defendant, Holiday Inns of America, Inc., a Tennessee...

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