BELL v. RIPPY

Civ. No. 6165.

133 F.Supp. 811 (1955)

Albert BELL, a minor, by his Step-father and Next Friend, Theodore D. Dorsey, and 23 other plaintiffs, v. Dr. Edwin L. RIPPY, as President of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Independent School District, Dallas County, Texas, and 16 other defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

September 16, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. Durham, C. B. Bunkley, Jr., Louis Bedford, Jr., Kenneth Holbert, U. Simpson Tate, J. L. Turner, Jr., Dallas, Tex., Robert L. Carter and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for plaintiffs.

A. J. Thuss, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for defendants.


ATWELL, District Judge.

This suit seeks an injunction against the defendants who are the principals and officers of the Dallas Public Schools for having refused to permit the plaintiffs, who are Negroes and who sought admission to several different public schools, to matriculate therein.

The facts, as such facts as are well pleaded in both the original petition and answer, are admitted in open court, thus saving the introduction of a string of witnesses which...

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