William T. Keller, Etc. v. A. B. Gilliam, J. A. Rooney v. A. B. Gilliam

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a “one man-one vote” case, in which the district court fully agreed with the principle contended for by the plaintiffs, but postponed the granting of relief for the four year period of the term of office of persons who were to be elected some five months after the date of the trial court’s order. Appellants here argued that, having found a gross disparity in the size of the five districts of Lowndes County, Mississippi, 1 the court should have required either at large elections from the entire county, without requiring each of the five candidates to…