JAMES v. DUCKWORTH

No. 2892.

170 F.Supp. 342 (1959)

Ruth Pendleton JAMES, a minor, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. W. Fred DUCKWORTH et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

February 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Campbell, Arlington, Va., Archie L. Boswell, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiffs.

Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., W. R. C. Cocke, Leigh D. Williams, Norfolk, Va., for defendants.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

This is another chapter involving the legal skirmishes confronting this and appellate courts following the May 17, 1954, decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873, as the same applies to the public schools of the City of Norfolk1. To review the history of efforts to avoid the effect of the mandate in Brown would be needless repetition...

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