Asher v. Huffman

Opinion op the Court by

Perry, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellee, Roy Huffman, principal of the white public school maintained in the Hyden School District in Leslie county, Kentucky, having refused to allow Bruce Asher, the seven year old son of the appellants, Boyd and Hattie Asher, to attend the said public school, the appellants, who reside in this school district, brought this suit against him, praying a mandatory injunction requiring him to allow the said Bruce to attend the said school as a pupil therein.

Huffman defended on the ground that the said Bruce Asher was a “colored person”…