Stewart v. Furton

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

In this housing discrimination action, plaintiff Stewart appeals from the District Court’s denial of damages for a violation of the Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3604 and 42 U.S.C. § 1982. Plaintiff, the white mother of a daughter whose father is black, sued the Furtons, the owners and managers of a trailer park, and also sued Crosson, lessee of a trailer pad at the trailer park, for their failure to sublease an available trailer and paid to her and her daughter. District Judge Morton found defendants liable for violation of 42 U.S.C. section 3604(c),1 and ordered…