Fred A. Jewell v. City of Covington, Georgia

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granting defendant-appellee’s motion to dismiss the suit. 1 Plaintiff-appellant alleged in his complaint that appellee wilfully and arbitrarily refused to furnish his business with electricity, thereby forcing him to sell the business and lose income therefrom. He based his claim for relief on the fourteenth amendment and on 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). The district court found that appellant had failed to state a claim, and therefore granted appellee’s motion to dismiss.

28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) merely…