Wilder v. Thomson

G. A. Wilder and others, as citizens and taxpayers of DeKalb County, brought a petition against W. D. Thomson, Walter T. Candler, and Fred Mason, as trustees of the Druid Hills School District, and Crenshaw & Mclver, contractors, to enjoin the defendants from erecting a school building for negro children in a certain described location, on the ground that the location was in a white settlement, remote from the patrons of the school, and that the erection of a negro school on the proposed site will damage the property of petitioners; that petitioners were not given an opportunity to protest or…