DOHERTY v. WILSON

Civ. A. No. 748.

356 F.Supp. 35 (1973)

Corrie Anna DOHERTY, Plaintiff, v. Joe C. WILSON, Superintendent of Schools, Sumter County, Georgia; and Sumter County Board of Education, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Americus Division.

March 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Moore, Jr., Elizabeth R. Rindskopf, Moore, Alexander & Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, for plaintiff.

Henry L. Crisp, Crisp & Oxford, Americus, Ga., for defendants.


OWENS, District Judge:

An evidentiary hearing was held January 18, 1973. The evidence presented shows that the following are the facts of this case:

Mrs. Corrie Anna Doherty, the plaintiff, is a young lady of the white race. She graduated from an Alabama college in December 1970. Soon thereafter she and her husband moved to Koinonia Farms — an interracial, religiously oriented, communal farm located in Sumter County, Georgia.

Defendant Joe C...

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