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COTTONREADER v. JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 2266-N.

252 F.Supp. 492 (1966)

R. B. COTTONREADER, Rosa Lee Lewis, Fannie Lee Marsh, Margaret Rogers, Charles Cheatham, Emmett Knight, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Elton JOHNSON, individually and as Mayor of Greenville, Alabama, E. B. Stafford, individually and as Chief of Police of Greenville, Alabama, W. Thomas, individually and as Sheriff of Butler County, Alabama, their agents, servants, employees, successors, and all persons in active concert and participation with them, Defendants.

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

April 5, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Gray, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Norman C. Amaker, Charles H. Jones, Jr., Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Calvin Poole, of Poole & Poole, Greenville, Ala., for defendants.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, as Negro residents or citizens of Butler County, Alabama, and the members of the class they represent, filed with this Court on August 27, 1965, their complaint, motion for a temporary restraining order, and motion for a preliminary injunction. This Court by formal order on August 31, 1965, denied plaintiffs' request for a temporary restraining order, which was sought without notice to the defendants and without this Court...

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