N.A.A.C.P. v. CLAIBORNE HARDWARE CO.

No. 51488.

393 So.2d 1290 (1980)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al. v. CLAIBORNE HARDWARE COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearings Denied March 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alix H. Sanders, Greenwood, William R. Richardson, Jr., Arthur M. Weisburd, James Robertson, Lloyd N. Cutler, Washington, D.C., Frank R. Parker, Julie Ann Epps, Royals, Taylor & Epps, A. Spencer Gilbert, III, Gilbert & Moore, Jackson, for appellants.

Crane D. Kipp, Shell, Buford, Bufkin, Callicutt & Perry, Christopher J. Walker, Upshaw & Ladner, Dixon L. Pyles, Pyles & Tucker, Jackson, W.E. Gore, Jr., Jackson, for appellees.

Before SMITH, P.J., and SUGG and COFER, JJ.


COFER, Justice, for the Court:

Beginning April 1, 1966, a boycott of retail merchants of Port Gibson and Claiborne County was in effect for some length of time. This suit, in the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, resulted from the boycott. The suit, brought by Claiborne Hardware Company and twenty-three other complainants, retail merchants in Claiborne County, and filed October 31, 1969, named as defendants the National Association for...

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