United States v. Theron C. Lynd, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Voters of Forrest County, State of Mississippi

TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is a motion for an injunction pending an appeal which the United States seeks to have this Court issue following a refusal by the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi to grant a temporary injunction, which the government sought under the provisions of 42 U.S.C.A. § 1971(a) (The Civil Rights Act touching on voting), it being charged in the government’s complaint that Negro applicants for registration in Forrest County, Mississippi, were not being treated “without distinction of race [or] color.” The government has filed a notice of appeal from the…