ASHCRAFT v. TENNESSEE

No. 391.

322 U.S. 143 (1944)

ASHCRAFT ET AL. v. TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 1, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James F. Bickers and Grover N. McCormick for petitioners.

Mr. Nat Tipton, with whom Mr. Roy H. Beeler, Attorney General of Tennessee, was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

About three o'clock on the morning of Thursday, June 5, 1941, Mrs. Zelma Ida Ashcraft got in her automobile at her home in Memphis, Tennessee, and set out on a trip to visit her mother's home in Kentucky. Late in the afternoon of the same day, her car was observed a few miles out of Memphis, standing on the wrong side of a road which she would likely have taken on her journey. Just off the road, in a slough, her...

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