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SHOATES v. HOWERY

Civ. A. No. 3832.

130 F.Supp. 879 (1955)

Levesta SHOATES, Edgar Triplett and Floyd Lee, Plaintiffs, v. David L. HOWERY, County Superintendent, LeFlore County, Oklahoma; T. L. Ferguson, County Treasurer, LeFlore County, Oklahoma; The Excise Board of LeFlore County, Oklahoma; Dr. Herman Thomas, Chairman; John H. Young, Member, Heavener; Harvery Bryan, Member, Spiro, Oklahoma, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Oklahoma.

April 9, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. L. Grace, Ft. Smith, Ark., and Joe H. Kennedy, Muskogee, Okl., for plaintiffs.

Joseph W. Foster, County Atty., LeFlore County, and Alpheus Varner, Poteau, Okl., for defendants.

WALLACE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, colored citizens of LeFlore County, Oklahoma, ask for a judicial declaration that the attempted dissolving of the Fort Coffee District (Dependent School District No. 82) and annexing of the territory therein to the Spiro Independent School District (No. 2) violated Oklahoma law and deprived plaintiffs of guaranteed federal constitutional rights.1 In addition, plaintiffs request that the defendant officials...

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