WALKER v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

6 Div. 999.

181 So.2d 493 (1965)

Ex parte Wyatt Tee Walker et al. In re Wyatt Tee WALKER et al. v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Shores and Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, Norman C. Amaker, Leroy Clark, Jack Greenberg and Constance Baker Motley, New York City, for petitioners.

J. M. Breckenridge and Earl McBee, Birmingham, for respondent.


COLEMAN, Justice.

We review by certiorari convictions of petitioners for criminal contempt for violating a temporary injunction issued by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in equity.

On April 10, 1963, the City of Birmingham, a municipal corporation, presented its verified bill of complaint to one of the judges of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. The bill prayed for temporary and permanent injunctions. The judge to whom the bill was presented ordered the temporary...

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