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BROOM v. WOOD

No. 407.

1 F.Supp. 134 (1932)

BROOM v. WOOD, Secretary of State of Mississippi, et al.

District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 1, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. H. Price, of Magnolia, Miss., H. V. Wall, of Brookhaven, Miss., P. C. Canizaro, of Vicksburg, Miss., J. O. S. Sanders, and Chalmers Potter, both of Jackson, Miss., and R. L. Jones, of Brookhaven, Miss., for complainant.

Greek L. Rice, Atty. Gen., and J. A. Lauderdale, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Before a specially constituted court, under section 266 of the Judicial Code, as amended, USCA, title 28, § 380, composed of FOSTER, Circuit Judge, and HOLMES and DAWKINS, District Judges.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill brought by Stewart C. Broom, a citizen of the United States, domiciled in Mississippi, against various state officers, praying for interlocutory and final injunctions to prohibit them from acting under the provisions of House Bill No. 197 of the 1932 Acts of the Legislature of Mississippi, known as the Congressional Redistricting Act on the ground that it violates the provisions of article 1, § 4, of the Constitution of the...

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