Ervin v. Seikel

The defendant in error, superintendent of public instruction of Pottawatomie county, established a school for children of the white race in school district No. 6 in said county where the sole previously existing school was one for the children of the colored race, and designated the school so created for the children of the white race as the district school and the school for the children of the colored race as the separate school and declared the offices which the plaintiffs in error had theretofore held as members of the board of the prior existing district school to be vacant and appointed…