Spriggs v. Altheimer, Arkansas School District No. 22

Altheimer School Board charged school tuition to the appellant Negro children, who allegedly stayed with their grandfather, Joseph Spriggs, within the school district. Tuition was charged on the basis that their mother lived within another but contiguous district. The children and their grandfather bring this action to enjoin the School Board from charging for transportation and tuition, on the grounds that the charges are in violation of the Arkansas laws 1 *and are discriminatory and in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The oldest child, Linda Ann…