Cates v. Graves

MEMORANDUM

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Rubin Cates, a citizen of Knoxville, Tennessee, filed this action against defendants, C. Edwin Graves, Postmaster, Knoxville, Tennessee; I. C. Patterson, Jr., Post Office Department, Memphis, Tennessee, and Lawrence F. O’Brien, Postmaster General of the United States, seeking a vending stand in the Lee Street Annex of the Knoxville Post Office. He charges that he contacted the defendant Graves on various occasions in an effort to obtain a permit but was refused. He then sought assistance from defendant Patterson, but was again refused.

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