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BARNUM v. CHAMBLISS

Civ. A. No. 582.

247 F.Supp. 794 (1965)

Mrs. Thelma G. BARNUM, Sammie Mahone, by his next friend Lula Mahone, and Henry Fredrick, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Ross CHAMBLISS, individually, and as Chief of Police of the City of Americus, H. Lowell Conner, individually and as Director of Public Safety, State of Georgia, Fred Chappell, individually and as Sheriff of Sumter County, their agents, servants, employees, successors, and all persons in active concert and participation with them, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Georgia, Americus Division.

November 13, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, Charles Stephen Ralston and Melvyn Zarr, New York City, and C. B. King, Albany, Ga., for plaintiffs.

William E. Smith, George R. Ellis, Americus, Ga., E. Freeman Leverett, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Elberton, Ga., and Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

ELLIOTT, District Judge.

This is a class action brought by the Plaintiffs against the above named Defendants by which the Plaintiffs proceed under the provisions of Title 42, United States Code, §§ 1971, 1981 and 1983, and Title 28 United States Code, § 1343(3) and (4), seeking to redress what the Plaintiffs claim to be a deprivation of rights secured to them by the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments...

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