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HENDERSON v. TRAILWAY BUS COMPANY

Civ. Nos. 3148, 3163.

194 F.Supp. 423 (1961)

Alfred HENDERSON et al. v. TRAILWAY BUS COMPANY et al. Mrs. Minnie ROBINSON et al. v. George HUNTER et al.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, at Richmond.

Decided March 24, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Jordan, Jr., E. Armistead Dawley, Jr., Leonard W. Holt, and Henry H. Jones, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiffs.

A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia, C. Hardaway Marks, Torsten E. Peterson, City Atty., Hopewell, Va., and William Earle White, Petersburg, Va., for defendants.

Rowland Watts and Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before BOREMAN, Circuit Judge, and LEWIS and BRYAN, District Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

"Sit-in" is the common designation of the conduct for which each of the plaintiffs here has been prosecuted, or threatened with prosecution, under the criminal trespass statutes of Virginia. It consists of the passive and peaceable refusal of a Negro, or a white person acting in sympathy with him, to leave a restaurant, where on account of his race or color, the Negro has been denied service of food or beverages at the same counter...

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