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LEWIS v. THE GREYHOUND CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 1724-N.

199 F.Supp. 210 (1961)

John R. LEWIS, Paul E. Brooks, Lucretia R. Collins, Rudolph Graham, Catherine Burks, Matthew Petway, Ralph D. Abernathy, and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. THE GREYHOUND CORPORATION; Capital Motor Lines; Continental Crescent Lines, Inc.; Earl James, L. B. Sullivan, and Frank Parks, individually and as members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Montgomery, Alabama; and Goodwin J. Ruppenthal, individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Montgomery, Alabama; MacDonald Gallion, individually and as Attorney General of the State of Alabama; and C. C. (Jack) Owen, J. S. Foster and Sibyl Pool, individually and as members of the Alabama Public Service Commission; and Mac Sim Butler, individually and as Sheriff of Montgomery County, Alabama, Defendants, George Smith, Joseph Charles Jones, Wyatt T. Walker, Bernard Lee, Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Clyde Carter; William S. Coffin, John Maguire, David Swift and Gaylord Noice, Intervenors.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

November 1, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Gray, S. S. Seay, Jr., Charles S. Conley, Montgomery, Ala., Louis H. Pollak, New Haven, Conn., and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs and intervenors.

Hill, Hill, Stovall & Carter, Montgomery, Ala., for The Greyhound Corp., Capital Motor Lines, and Continental Crescent Lines, Inc.

Calvin M. Whitesell, Montgomery, Ala., for Earl James, L. B. Sullivan, Frank Parks, and Goodwin J. Ruppenthal, MacDonald Gallion, Montgomery, Ala., (pro se,) C. C. (Jack) Owen, J. S. Foster, and Sibyl Pool.

Hill, Robison & Belser, Montgomery, Ala., for Mac Sim Butler.

Hartwell Davis, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., John Doar, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., amici curiae.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This case is now submitted upon the several issues made up by the pleadings and the proof. Upon consideration of the evidence, consisting of the oral testimony of several witnesses and the exhibits thereto, this Court, as required by Rule 52, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., makes the appropriate and necessary findings and conclusions, embodying the same in this Memorandum Opinion.

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