Society of Alumni of Louisville Male High School, Inc. v. Board of Education

CAMMACK, Chief Justice.

In January, 1950, the appellant in this action, Society of the Alumni of the Louisville Male High School, instituted a declaratory judgment proceeding wherein it challenged the right of the Board of Education of Louisville to institute a program of coeducation in the Louisville Male High School. The challenge was based upon a provision in the deed to the land on which the school plant is located specifying that the property could be used ouly for the *370benefit of Louisville Male High School and the white male pupils thereof. The Society-contributed $25,000 toward the…