DOVE v. PARHAM

No. 3680.

181 F.Supp. 504 (1960)

Earnestine DOVE, A Minor, by her Father and Next Friend, William Dove, James Edwards Warfield, A Minor, by his Father and Next Friend, New James Warfield, and Corliss Smith, A Minor, by her Mother and Next Friend, (Mrs.) Sarah Smith, Plaintiffs, v. Lee PARHAM, Joe Pierce, Robert Bryant, Carl Purnell, and Orville Phillips, Respectively President, Secretary and Members of the Board of Directors, Dollarway School District Number 2, Dollarway School District Number 2, A Corporation, and Charles L. Fallis, Superintendent of Public Schools of said District, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

February 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., Robert Carter, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Herschel H. Friday, Jr., Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.


HENLEY, Chief Judge.

This public school desegregation case is now before the Court on the supplemental complaint of the plaintiffs, which complaint has been heard on its merits, subject to the motion of the defendants to dismiss, or, in the alternative, for a stay of proceedings.

The plaintiffs, Negro children of school age residing within Dollarway School District No. 2, Jefferson County, Arkansas, commenced this...

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