THOMASON v. COOPER

No. 15915.

254 F.2d 808 (1958)

Mrs. Clyde THOMASON, Appellant, v. William G. COOPER, M.D., as President of Board of Trustees, Little Rock Independent School District, et al. (Defendants), and John Aaron, a minor, and Thelma Aaron, a minor, by their mother and next friend (Mrs.) Thelma Aaron, a feme sole, et al. (Plaintiffs), Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

April 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Griffin Smith, Little Rock, Ark. (Wood & Smith, Little Rock, Ark., were on the brief), for appellant.

Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluff, Ark. (Thurgood Marshall, New York City, was with him on the brief), for appellees John Aaron, et al.

A. F. House, Little Rock, Ark., filed brief for appellees William G. Cooper, et al., and Little Rock Independent School Dist.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court entered on August 30, 1957, making Mrs. Clyde Thomason a party defendant in the case of Aaron v. Cooper, 143 F.Supp. 855, and enjoining her and the class she represents from using an order of the Chancery Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas, as a means for preventing the Little Rock School Board from opening on September 3, 1957, the partially integrated...

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