Roy v. Brittain

Mr. Chiee Justice Neil

delivered the opinion of the Court.

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 Ten*142nessee. We declined to grant the relief prayed for and thereupon the complainants filed a lengthy petition to rehear. It is now before the Court for…