McWhiter Taylor v. Monroe County Board of Supervisors

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal seeks an order of this court requiring the holding of a special election under newly created county supervisor districts to oust the present five supervisors and supplant them by those to be chosen under a one-man one-vote redistricting order by the trial court entered in April 1969. The terms of the members chosen under the old mal-apportioned districts, now outlawed, commenced in January, 1968, and expire in January, 1972 — some twenty-two months hence.

This case presents a difficult choice of equities, more difficult perhaps than it might have been if the…