Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1963-05-30

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JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge. This appeal from adverse judgments on jury verdicts denying claims for damages for arrest, imprisonment and criminal prosecution of white persons triggered by their eating with Negroes in a public restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama, presents a number of questions both of Alabama and federal law. Basic to each claim is the question whether the trial C…

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