MITCHELL v. JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 649-E.

250 F.Supp. 117 (1966)

William P. MITCHELL, David L. Beasley, Otis Pinkard, Wright L. Lassiter, Jr., Lucius A. Hayden and William C. Allen, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff and Amicus Curiae, v. Edgar JOHNSON, E. P. Livingston, and H. P. Wilson, individually and as members of the Jury Commission of Macon County, Alabama, and Mrs. Grace P. Youngblood Hall, individually and as Clerk of the Jury Commission of Macon County, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, E. D.

January 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Ben Hardeman, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff and amicus curiae.

Gray & Seay, Montgomery, Ala., and Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., Leslie Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., and Tom F. Young, Circuit Sol., Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, Alexander City, Ala., for defendants.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

This action was tried to the Court without the intervention of a jury, on the issues made by the pleadings and proof. Upon consideration of the evidence, consisting of the oral testimony of several witnesses, the testimony by deposition of several witnesses, together with the exhibits, and the stipulations of the parties dictated into the record, this Court now proceeds to make and enter in this memorandum opinion, as authorized by Rule 52...

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