Legal Opinion
United States v. Harrison County
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided March 8, 1967No. Civ. A. No. 2262PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM HAROLD COX, Chief Judge.
This suit was instituted by the United States to compel specific performance of a contract with Harrison County, Mississippi with respect to the use of the twenty-six mile long artificially made sand beach abutting the north line of Mississippi Sound along the south line of Harrison County, Mississippi; and for injunctive relief against peace officers who allegedly discriminated against negroes in the use of the sand beach. Between July 1925 and March 1928, Harrison County constructed a seawall on the south most fifteen feet of a fifty foot easement along the…
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