Hare v. . Board of Education

The defendants refused to admit the children upon the ground that the children were negroes and not entitled to be placed on the school list.

It was admitted that the mother of the plaintiff was a pure-blood white woman, and that his wife to whom he was married, and who was the mother of his children, was a pure-blood white woman; that the plaintiff was an illegitimate child. There was evidence, not contradicted, that the children were within the school age.

J. H. Ellis, a witness for the defendants, testified as follows: "I am eighty-eight years old." (Proposes to ask witness where the mother…