ROY v. BRITTAIN


297 S.W.2d 72 (1956)

John E. ROY et al. v. D.J. BRITTAIN, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sims Crownover and Watkins & Crownover, Nashville, for petitioners.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

On September 3, 1956, the complainants, John E. Roy and others, presented to this Court a petition for writs of certiorari and supersedeas to review the action of Chancellor Joe M. Carden in refusing to issue writs of injunction to prevent the integration or desegregation, of the "Clinton High School," the same being a "public school" and a part of the public school system of Tennessee. We declined to grant the relief prayed for and thereupon...

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