Reed v. Hollywood Professional School

HULS, J. *

Plaintiff, a 5-year-old Negro girl, by her guardian ad litem, appeals from the order and judgment of nonsuit; she claimed damages for violation of her civil rights under the provisions of Civil Code, sections 51, 52, 53 and 54, because of defendant’s refusal to enroll her in defendant’s school by reason of the fact that she was a Negro, and that she was discriminated against solely because she was a member of that race. At the trial it was stipulated that defendant is and always has been a private school.

Plaintiff contends that a private school is within the meaning of the words ‘…