MOODY v. FLOWERS

Civ. A. Nos. 860, 693.

256 F.Supp. 195 (1966)

Earl C. MOODY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Richmond M. FLOWERS et al., Defendants. John B. STEVENSON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Richmond M. FLOWERS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama.

June 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Civ. A. No. 860-S:

C. R. Lewis, Dothan, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Richmond M. Flowers (pro se), Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Gordon Madison and Walter Turner, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Richmond M. Flowers.

Roy Mayhall, Jasper, Ala., pro se.

Sam C. Pointer (Brown, Pointer & Pointer), Birmingham, Ala., for Thomas H. Brigham and Alfred J. Saliba, defendants.

John C. Godbold (Godbold, Hobbs & Copeland), Montgomery, Ala., W. G. Hardwick and Jere C. Segrest, Dothan, Ala., for defendants Carl E. Sellers, James Herring, W. G. Bond, J. W. Calhoun, W. H. Hicks, W. E. Yance.

William G. Hause, Dothan, Ala., pro se.

Civ. A. No. 693-E:

Lewis H. Hamner, Jr., Roanoke, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Richmond M. Flowers (pro se), Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, and Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Flowers.

Sam C. Pointer (Brown, Pointer & Pointer), Birmingham, Ala., for Alfred W. Goldthwaite [successor to Thomas H. Brigham], defendant.

Paul J. Hooton (Hooton & Hooton), Roanoke, Ala., for defendants C. W. Thompson, Grover L. Poole, Sam Carpenter, Jr., Fred McCain, Gay Foster, Guy Henderson, and W. C. Beverly.

Roy Mayhall, Jasper, Ala., pro se.

Stell Benefield, Wedowee, Ala., pro se.

James Peek, Roanoke, Ala., pro se.

Before GEWIN, Circuit Judge, and LYNNE and JOHNSON, District Judges.


LYNNE, District Judge.

Consolidated for purpose of trial, these actions involve common questions of law and fact. Positing jurisdiction upon the provisions of 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1983 and 1988 and 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343 (3) each complaint seeks judicial intervention in the internal political affairs of a county.

No. 860-S (Houston County, Alabama)

The relevant facts may be severely capsulated. Houston County is divided into fourteen election...

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