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DORSEY v. FORTSON

Civ. A. No. 8756.

228 F.Supp. 259 (1964)

James W. DORSEY, Dan I. MacIntyre, III and James Edward Manget, Plaintiffs, v. Ben W. FORTSON, Jr., as Secretary of State of Georgia, Eugene Gunby, Ordinary of Fulton County, and Katherine E. Mann, Ordinary of DeKalb County, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

March 27, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. O'Kelley, chief counsel, Atlanta, Ga., Ed Barham, Valdosta, Ga., Charles A. Moye, Jr., and Edwin F. Hunt, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., Paul Rodgers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for Ben W. Fortson, Jr.

Northcutt & Edwards, Atlanta, Ga., for Eugene Gunby.

George P. Dillard, Herbert O. Edwards and Robert E. Mozley, Decatur, Ga., for Katherine E. Mann.

Before BELL, Circuit Judge, and HOOPER and MORGAN, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs, respectively, a registered voter from the 40th Senatorial District of Georgia, located in Fulton County; the State Senator who is also a registered voter from the same district; and a registered voter from the 42th Senatorial District of Georgia, located in DeKalb County, seek relief, both declaratory and injunctive, from the force of the Georgia statute which requires countywide voting in the selection of state senators in counties having...

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