BROWN v. LEE

No. 9243.

331 F.2d 142 (1964)

J. Arthur BROWN et al., Appellees, v. Davis LEE, by intervention, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis Lee, appellant, pro se.

Michael Meltsner, New York City (Jack Greenberg, New York City, Matthew J. Perry and Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.


SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

When a number of South Carolina Negroes brought a class action to enjoin racial segregation in the operation of the state parks, Davis Lee, a Negro who publishes a newspaper in Anderson, South Carolina, intervened and aligned himself with the defendants. He filed an answer to the complaint declaring that he was a member of the class for whom the plaintiffs professed to speak but that they did not represent his views. Lee opposed the grant of...

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