JACKSON v. RAWDON

No. 15927.

235 F.2d 93 (1956)

Nathaniel JACKSON, a minor, by his Father and Next Friend, W. D. Jackson, et al., Appellants, v. O. C. RAWDON, As President of the Board of Trustees, Mansfield Independent School District, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

U. Simpson Tate, Dallas, Tex., L. Clifford Davis, Fort Worth, Tex., Robert L. Carter, Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for appellants.

J. A. Gooch, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought October 7, 1955, against the defendants, Board of Trustees of the Mansfield Independent School District, the president and members of the board, and the superintendent of the district, by Negro children of school age, to redress the deprivation, under color of state law, of their rights secured by the Constitution of the United States, the suit sought a declaratory judgment and an injunction.

The claim was that, though plaintiffs...

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