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SPEARS v. CONTINENTAL BUS SYSTEM, DALLAS, TEXAS

Civ. A. 5862.

148 F.Supp. 806 (1957)

I. H. SPEARS v. CONTINENTAL BUS SYSTEM, Inc., DALLAS, TEXAS; Continental Southern Lines, Inc., Alexandria, Louisiana; City of Shreveport, Louisiana; and 18 John Does, City Policemen of The City of Shreveport, Louisiana.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

Supplemental opinion February 27, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. H. Spears, Pasadena, California, in pro. per.

Grove Stafford, Stafford & Pitts, Alexandria, La., William L. Murdock, Robert E. Eatman, Shreveport, La., for defendants.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This is a suit for substantial money damages on account of alleged violations of plaintiff's civil rights, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985. Plaintiff, who claims to be a negro lawyer with forty-six years experience, alleges that on November 13, 1956, being a fare-paying passenger holding a ticket on a bus line operated by some of the defendants, at the bus station in Shreveport, Louisiana, he was "* * * unlawfully...

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