Williams v. McCulley

HUNTER, District Judge.

This suit for declaratory judgment, damages and injunctive relief was brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by Sherman Williams and four others, all residents of Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Their contention was that they possessed all of the qualifications and had none of the disqualifications to register as electors, but that the defendant, James H. MeCulley, Registrar of Voters of Rapides Parish — now deceased —discriminated against them solely on account of their race and color. It was alleged that this was a denial in…