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DAVIS v. THOMAS COUNTY, GEORGIA

No. 23882.

380 F.2d 93 (1967)

Jasper C. DAVIS et al., Appellants, v. THOMAS COUNTY, GEORGIA et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 26, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. J. Whitehurst, III, Thomasville, Ga., for appellants.

William P. Trotter, LaGrange, Ga., Charles F. Johnson, of Altman & Johnson, E. P. McCollum, Sol Altman, Thomasville, Ga., for appellees.

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

PER CURIAM.

Contending that the method of election of the eight members of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Thomas County provided by an act of the Georgia Legislature in 1911 (1911 Ga. Laws, p. 501), as amended in 1917 (1917 Ga.Laws, p. 394), constituted a violation of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment within the principles articulated in Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368, 83 S.Ct. 801, 9 L.Ed.2d...

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