City of Dallas v. Brown

Original contempt proceedings. The City of Dallas, acting through its City Attorney, by motion duly verified, moves this Court to declare respondents to be in contempt of this Court for violation of a Writ of Prohibition and Ancillary Orders issued by this Court on April 16, 1963. For a proper understanding of the issues here presented it is both desirable and essential to relate the following relevant antecedent facts.

I. On April 4th, 1961 George S. Atkinson, and others, owners of property near Love Field, a municipal airport located in the City of Dallas, filed a class suit in the District…