COLEMAN v. AYCOCK

No. GC 6538.

304 F.Supp. 132 (1969)

Joe Nathan COLEMAN, Willie Lee Hazelwood, Aline Hunter, and William H. Scott, Plaintiffs, v. C. B. AYCOCK, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

September 22, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reuben V. Anderson and Fred Banks, of Anderson, Banks & Nichols, Jackson, Miss., Jonathan Shapiro, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Irby Turner, Jr., James T. Bridges, Jr., Belzoni, Miss., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Joe Nathan Coleman, Willie Lee Hazelwood, Aline Hunter and William H. Scott, Negro resident citizens of the City of Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi, brought this class action on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, against certain elected and appointed officers of said county and city.

Humphreys County is situated in the Mississippi Delta. The population of the county...

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