KILGARLIN v. MARTIN

Civ. A. No. 63-H-390.

252 F.Supp. 404 (1966)

William W. KILGARLIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. Crawford MARTIN, Secretary of State of the State of Texas, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

February 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony Korioth, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Charles F. Mitchell, Asst. County Atty. of Harris County, Texas, Houston, Tex., for defendants, William M. Elliott and Robert E. Turrentine, Jr.

Frank Erwin, Jr., Austin, Tex., Chairman of State Democratic Executive Committee.

Waggoner Carr, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Austin, Tex., for all State officials.

Dorsey B. Hardeman, San Angelo, Tex., for intervenors Dorsey B. Hardeman, George Moffett, Louis Crump, Ralph M. Hall, J. P. Work, Grady Hazlewood, Galloway Calhoun, Jr., Tom Creighton, Frank Owen, III, and H. J. Blanchard.

R. Dean Moorhead, Austin, Tex., for intervenors Myra Banfield, Ben Barnes, John E. Blaine, Jack Crain, David Crews, Wayne Gibbens, Forrest A. Harding, George T. Hinson, James L. Slider and Bill Walker.

J. R. Owen, County Atty., Williamson County, Georgetown, Tex., for defendants Sam V. Stone and Dick Cervenka.

Paul H. Dionne, County Atty. of Pecos County, Fort Stockton, Tex., for defendants Walter L. Guenger and Billy Hodges.

R. L. (Bob) Lattimore, Crim. Dist. Atty., and Allyn Zollicoffer, Civil Administrative Asst., Crim. Dist. Atty., Edinburg, Tex., for defendants Milton D. Richardson and Julio Guzman.

Jack H. Holland, County Atty., Henderson County, Athens, Tex., for defendants R. H. Lee and Mrs. Anna Bennet.

Naomi Harney, County Atty., Potter County, Amarillo, Tex., for defendants, W. M. Adams and Mrs. Ann Lyle.

Joseph C. Ternus, County Atty., San Patricio County, Sinton, Tex., for defendants William A. Schmidt and Velma Sherman.

H. C. Davidson, Houston, Tex., for intervenors, Guthrie Taylor, James S. Miles, John Wells and Job. O. Booth, Jr.

Patrick B. Gibbons, III, Dallas, Tex., for defendant Peter O'Donnell, Jr., Chairman of the State Republican Executive Committee.

Before BROWN, Circuit Judge, and INGRAHAM and NOEL, District Judges.


NOEL, District Judge:

Preface

Plaintiffs ask this Court to abolish House Bill 195, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, c. 351, which reapportions1 the House of Representatives of the State of Texas. Having won the first round in this Court but lost the second round in the Texas Legislature, plaintiffs return here for the third round of a now-typical reapportionment struggle.

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