BEASLEY v. POTTER

No. G74-48 CA5.

493 F.Supp. 1059 (1980)

Percy BEASLEY, Charles Morris, Albert Holloway and Beasley-Morris Asphalt Paving Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Dale POTTER, Frank Sharp, Burton Stencil, Arthur Smith, Frank Stout, Edwin Nash, A. C. Barley, Harold Bennett, Homer Cowels, Henry Nelson, Alex Sibley, and F. Wayne Sprague, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

July 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilfred A. Dupuis, John W. Davis, Lansing, Mich., Theodore G. Albert, Iron River, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Grant J. Gruel, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants.


OPINION

DOUGLAS W. HILLMAN, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action for money damages arising out of the enforcement of a zoning ordinance against a black-owned business in Ionia County, Michigan, and the subsequent denial of a variance by the Ionia County Zoning Commission, in 1972 and 1973. Plaintiffs Percy Beasley, Charles Morris, and Albert Holloway are three black men, and the former officers and sole shareholders of a Michigan corporation, Beasley...

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