LANCASTER v. CITY OF COLUMBUS

Nos. EC 7059, EC 7075.

333 F.Supp. 1012 (1971)

James A. LANCASTER et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF COLUMBUS et al., Defendants. W. N. HAGGARD et al., Plaintiffs, v. James A. LANCASTER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, E. D.

November 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DeWitt T. Hicks, Jr., Hunter M. Gholson, Robert B. Prather, Columbus, Miss., for Lancaster, and others.

J. O. Sams, Jr., Columbus, Miss., for Housing, Inc.

Falton O. Mason, Asst. U. S. Atty., for HUD.

G. Lowrey Lucas and Dixon L. Pyles, Jackson, Miss., William J. Threadgill, Billy J. Jordan, Columbus, Miss., for Haggard, and others.

Thomas J. Tubb, West Point, Miss., and Thomas C. Harvey, Jr., Columbus, Miss., for City of Columbus.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

These consolidated cases involve the legality of a low-income rental housing project planned for a 4.09 acre parcel of land owned by James A. Lancaster (Lancaster) adjacent to the city-owned Lee Park in Columbus, Mississippi, as well as the validity of an agreement for mortgage insurance to finance its construction made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through his statutory agent, Federal Housing...

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