HASSELL v. HARMON FOODS, INC.

No. 71-1315.

454 F.2d 199 (1972)

Sidney Lee HASSELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HARMON FOODS, INC., a Tennessee corporation, and Continental Coffee Company, a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip E. Kuhn, Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.

Victor G. Savikas, Chicago, Ill. (John E. McKee, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellees; Friedman, Koven, Shapiro, Salzman, Koenigsberg, Specks & Homer, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Stanley P. Hebert, Gen. Counsel, John de J. Pemberton, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, Julia P. Cooper, Chief Appellate Section, Robert B. Wallace, Atty., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, D. C., Laverne S. Tisdale, Field Atty., EEOC, Memphis, Tenn., on the brief as amicus curiae of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Before WEICK, PECK and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff-appellant filed an application with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (hereinafter EEOC) against the defendant Harmon Foods, Inc., alleging discrimination on the basis of race. Upon the failure of conciliatory efforts undertaken by the EEOC, the present action was filed in the District Court. An amended complaint filed therein added the Continental Coffee Company, the parent corporation of the wholly-owned subsidiary Harmon Foods...

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