PITTS v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF DE WITT SP. SCH. DIST.

Civ. No. 1856.

84 F.Supp. 975 (1949)

PITTS et al. v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF DE WITT SPECIAL SCHOOL DIST. No. 1 et al.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

July 8, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Harold Flowers, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for plaintiffs.

A. F. House, Little Rock, Arkansas and George E. Pike, De Witt, Arkansas, for defendants.


LEMLEY, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity brought by the plaintiffs, Frank Pitts, et al., Negro citizens and taxpayers residing within the territorial limits of the De Witt Special School District No. 1 of Arkansas County, Arkansas, against the members of the Board of Directors (termed in the bill "Board of Trustees") of said school district, the President and Secretary of said Board, and the Superintendent of Schools of said district, for the purpose of requiring...

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