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LEWIS v. CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

No. 4431.

222 F.Supp. 349 (1963)

Alphonse LEWIS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, Michigan Liquor Control Commission, William A. Johnson, Superintendent of Grand Rapids Police Department, William H. Nichols, Jr., Trustee of the Estate of Patricia Ettress Bell, Bankrupt, United States of America, their commissioners, officials, officers, attorneys, agents, employees, and any others acting for, with or in concert with any of them, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

September 13, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alphonse Lewis, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiff.

William J. Garlington, City Atty., and Wendell Miles, of Dutchess, Mika, Miles, Meyers, Merdzinski & Snow, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants City of Grand Rapids and William A. Johnson.

Murray B. DeGroot, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendant William H. Nichols, Jr., Trustee.

James Saunders, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln Park, Mich., for defendant Mich. Liquor Control Commission.

FOX, District Judge.

This action involves the denial of a transfer and ultimate revocation by the Chief of Police and the City Commission of Grand Rapids of the only negro-owned-operated Class C liquor license in a city of over 200,000 population.

Plaintiff Alphonse Lewis, Jr., a negro, claims the refusal to transfer the license of Barnett's Bar fom Patricia Ettress Bell, a negro, to him and Dr. Cortez English, a negro, denied him his constitutionally protected...

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