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DAWLEY v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

Civ. A. No. 2405.

159 F.Supp. 642 (1958)

E. A. DAWLEY, Jr., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, a municipal corporation, Thomas F. Maxwell, City Manager, Calvin H. Dalby, Director of Public Safety, and S. C. Morrissette, Director of Public Works, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

February 26, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. A. Dawley, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff.

Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., Norfolk, Va., for defendants.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In this action by way of declaratory judgment, plaintiff, a Negro attorney at law practicing in the City of Norfolk, Virginia, seeks a mandatory injunction against the defendants to require them to remove the word "Colored" from the doors of certain rest rooms in a courthouse building occupied and used exclusively by four state courts and the judges thereof. Plaintiff concedes that the rest rooms are equal in every respect. The lettering...

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