UNITED STATES v. HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

Civ. A. No. 2262.

265 F.Supp. 76 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, S. D.

March 8, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin N. Tranen, St. John Barrett, Edward Lazowska, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, Jackson, Miss., for the United States.

G. E. Estes, Jr., Owen T. Palmer, Jr., Gulfport, Miss., Jacob Guice, Biloxi, Miss., S. E., Jr., & George Morse, George R. Smith, Neil White, Gulfport, Miss., C. Randall Jones, Jr., Pass Christian, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Webb Mize, Boyce Holleman, Charles Galloway, Gulfport, Miss., Edward Tremmel, Biloxi, Miss., for defendants.


WILLIAM HAROLD COX, Chief Judge.

This suit was instituted by the United States to compel specific performance of a contract with Harrison County, Mississippi with respect to the use of the twenty-six mile long artificially made sand beach abutting the north line of Mississippi Sound along the south line of Harrison County, Mississippi; and for injunctive relief against peace officers who allegedly discriminated against negroes in the use of the sand beach. Between...

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