KENNEDY v. OWEN

No. 20634.

321 F.2d 116 (1963)

Robert F. KENNEDY, Appellant, v. R. Appleton OWEN, Circuit Court Clerk and Registrar, Jefferson County, Mississippi, Leonard B. Caves, Circuit Clerk, Jones County, Mississippi, J. E. McDavid, Circuit Clerk, Noxubee County, Mississippi, A. V. Davis, Jr., Circuit Court Clerk and Registrar, Adams County, Mississippi, R. Whitaker, Circuit Court Clerk and Registrar, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, Mrs. John Mikell, Circuit Clerk, Marion County, Mississippi, and Talmadge S. Saucier, Circuit Clerk, Lamar County, Mississippi, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Rubin, Harold H. Greene, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, William A. Allain, Jackson, Miss., Robert Ridley, Laurel, Miss., Clay B. Tucker, Woodville, Miss., Lucien C. Gwin, Natchez, Miss., E. H. Britton, Macon, Miss., Everette Truly, Natchez, Miss., Ernest L. Brown, Macon, Miss., James D. Hester, Laurel, Miss., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

These consolidated cases came on for hearing on the motion for summary reversal by appellant in each case. The demand letter attached to each application was addressed to the appellee followed by the words "Circuit Clerk." Each appellee was in fact both Circuit Clerk and Registrar. The district court granted an inspection order as to the records each appellee possessed in his capacity as Circuit Clerk, but not as to the records in his custody as Registrar...

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