Box 17, Folder 15, Document 25

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HAAS, DUNAWAY, SHELFER & HAAS

. ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LEONARD HAAS

BORK aoatcoawaes SUITE 601 HAAS-HOWELL BUILDING

We. S. SHELFER TELEPHONE
ATLANTA,

GEORGE A. HAAS hp OER JACKSON I-1I5!

JAMES B.PILCHER

HUGH F. NEWBERRY July Thy 1963

Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.,
City Hall,
Atlanta 3, Georgia.

Dear Ivan:

I am writing you at the request of my wife, and
acknowledge I am glad to do so.

(1) Georgia Code, Sec. 52-101 reads as follows:

"Under the term 'inn' the law includes all taverns,
hotels, and houses of public general entertainment
for guests. All persons entertained for hire at
an inn are guests,"

Georgia Code, Sec. 52--103 reads as follows:

"The innkeeper who advertises himself as such {fs
bound to receive as guests, so far as he can
accommodate them, all persons of good character
offering themselves, who are willing to comply
with his rules."

These Georgia Code Sections are codifications of
the common law which has been of force for more than a hundred
years both jin England and in all the states of this country.

(2) With respect to the decisions of the Supreme Court
of Georgia holding unconstitutional an Ordinance of the City
of Atlanta which prohibits colored persons from occupying
houses in blocks where the greater number of houses are occu-
pied by white persons, I am giving you copies of two letters
which I wrote to Ralph McGill, one on December 12, 1960, and
the other on January 22, 1963.
July 11, 1963

You will note that in my letter of December 12th
to Ralph, I mentioned that Richard B. Russell was of counsel
for the petitioners who secured the ruling of the Court de-
claring the Ordinance unconstitutional. Ralph was of the
opinion that the Richard B. Russell referred to as counsel for
the negro must have been the father of Dick Russell, as it was
decided in the year 1918 Ralph may be correct, I have no way
of knowing.

Best wishes and more power to you.

Sincerely,

LH: LPM Leonard Haas

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