KELLER v. GILLIAM

No. 71-2520.

454 F.2d 55 (1972)

William T. KELLER, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. A. B. GILLIAM et al., Defendants-Appellees. J. A. ROONEY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. A. B. GILLIAM et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joshua Stevens, Jr., West Point, Miss., for J. A. Rooney, and others.

Joe O. Sams, Jr., Columbus, Miss., for Wm. T. Keller, and others.

Tubb & Stevens, West Point, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

William G. Burgin, Jr., W. H. Jolly, Jr., W. H. Jolly, Sr., Columbus, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, GOLDBERG and DYER, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a "one man-one vote" case, in which the district court fully agreed with the principle contended for by the plaintiffs, but postponed the granting of relief for the four year period of the term of office of persons who were to be elected some five months after the date of the trial court's order. Appellants here argued that, having found a gross disparity in the size of the five districts of Lowndes County, Mississippi,...

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