MORGAN v. THOMAS

No. 71-1152.

448 F.2d 1356 (1971)

E. E. MORGAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Fred THOMAS, Sheriff of Hinds County, Miss., etc., Respondent-Appellee, United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 15, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vardaman S. Dunn, Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner-appellant; Cox & Dunn, Ltd., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents; Joe A. Covington, Meridian, Miss., George H. Butler, Robert C. Cannada, Junior O'Mara, Phineas Stevens, Jackson, Miss., for intervenor; Snow, Covington, Temple & Watts, Meridian, Miss., Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Junior O'Mara, Phineas Stevens, Jackson, Miss., for respondent.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GEWIN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 15, 1971.

MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment, 321 F.Supp. 565, denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by which the appellant Morgan seeks to challenge collaterally a decree adjudging him to be in civil contempt for failing to comply with a decree of the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, and directing that he be fined and imprisoned...

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