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EATON v. BOARD OF MANAGERS OF JAMES WALKER MEM. HOSP.

Civ. No. 700.

164 F.Supp. 191 (1958)

Hubert A. EATON, Daniel C. Roane and Samuel James Gray, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF MANAGERS OF the JAMES WALKER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, a body corporate; Alan A. Marshall, Chairman; H. E. Hamilton, Secretary of the Board of Managers of the James Walker Memorial Hospital; The City of Wilmington, North Carolina, Dan D. Cameron, Mayor; and the County of New Hanover, North Carolina, Ralph T. Horton, Chairman of County Commissioners, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, Wilmington Division.

June 24, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Bond, Wilmington, N. C., C. O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Cicero P. Yow, Hogue & Hogue, John Bright Hill, Wilmington, N. C., for defendants.

GILLIAM, District Judge.

The instant suit is brought by three Negro doctors for themselves and for other Negro doctors, as a class, for the purpose of obtaining admission to practice medicine at James Walker Memorial Hospital on what is known as the "Courtesy Staff". The City of Wilmington and the County of New Hanover are made parties defendant in addition to the Hospital's Board of Managers and H. E. Hamilton who is Secretary of the Board. The defendants move to...

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