BAILEY v. PATTERSON

No. 20372.

323 F.2d 201 (1963)

Samuel BAILEY et al., Appellants, v. Joe T. PATTERSON, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellants.

Elizabeth W. Grayson, Jackson, Miss., Wence F. Cerne, Atty. (I. C. C. RR.), Chicago, Ill., Thomas H. Watkins, Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Miss., John M. Kuykendall, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for appellee Illinois Central R. Co. Joseph H. Wright, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Junior O'Mara, Robert C. Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellees, Greyhound Corp. and Continental Southern Lines, Inc., Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

E. W. Stennett, City Atty., Jackson, Miss., for the City of Jackson and others.

Before CAMERON, WISDOM and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


HAYS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, Negroes living in Jackson, Mississippi, appeal from judgments of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, S. C. Mize, Judge, which declared unconstitutional both the so-called Segregation Statutes of the State of Mississippi,1 and a similar ordinance of the City of Jackson, and declared that each of the plaintiffs had a right to...

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