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SIMS v. FRINK

Civ. A. No. 1744-N.

208 F.Supp. 431 (1962)

M. O. SIMS, Fred A. Beam, Wylie Johnson, G. R. Southard, Miles S. Lee, Paul Friedman, William Lindsay Williams, William P. Shaw, Jr., Prentice W. Thomas, Richard D. Tannehill, Paul M. Byrne, David R. Baker, Charles Morgan, Jr., and George Peach Taylor, for themselves jointly and severally, and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, R. E. Farr, Marshall Meadows, Jack Hopping, Jack Ryan, Max W. Morgan, David J. Vann, Robert S. Vance, Richard P. Humphrey, Jr., John W. McConnell, Jr., Joseph N. Langan, William M. Williams, Jr., and Garet Van Antwerp, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Bettye FRINK, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama; Harrell Hammonds, Judge of Probate of Lowndes County, Alabama; John A. Sankey, Judge of Probate of Montgomery County, Alabama; J. Paul Meeks, Judge of Probate of Jefferson County, Alabama; John Grenier, Chairman of the Alabama State Republican Executive Committee; Perry O. Hooper, Secretary of the Alabama State Republican Executive Committee; Roy Mayhall, Chairman of the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee; H. G. Rains, Secretary of the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee; MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Defendants.

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

July 21, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Morgan, Jr., George Peach Taylor, Robert H. Loeb, and Kenneth Howell, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Cooper, Mitch & Crawford, Birmingham, Ala., for intervening plaintiffs R. E. Farr, Marshall Meadows, Jack Hopping, Jack Ryan and Max W. Morgan.

David J. Vann, Robert S. Vance and C. H. Erskine Smith, Birmingham, Ala., for intervening plaintiffs David J. Vann, Robert S. Vance, and Richard P. Humphrey, Jr.

John W. McConnell, Jr., Mobile, Ala., for intervening plaintiffs John W. McConnell, Jr., Joseph N. Langan, William M. Williams, Jr., and Garet Van Antwerp.

Boswell & Smith, Geneva, Ala., for defendant Harrell Hammonds.

Roy D. McCord and H. G. Rains, Gadsden, Ala., for H. G. Rains.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, Leslie Hall and Gordon Madison, Asst. Attys. Gen., of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for MacDonald Gallion and Bettye Frink.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS and JOHNSON, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs and the plaintiff-intervenors, as citizens of the United States and of the State of Alabama, and as taxpayers and duly qualified and registered voters in said State and in the Counties of Jefferson and Mobile, jointly and severally bring this action in their own behalf and in behalf of all other voters in the State of Alabama who are similarly situated. The defendant Bettye Frink is sued in her capacity as Secretary of State for the State of...

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