Moorman v. Morgan

SIMS, Judge.

Appellant, Hyburnia Moorman, filed this action in the Jefferson Circuit Court seeking a declaratory judgment and an injunction against the enforcement of certain specifications, rules and regulations promulgated by the Director of Parks of the City of Louisville, setting aside separate parks for Negro and white citizens.

The chancellor denied the relief requested on the authority of Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60, 38 S.Ct. 16, 62 L.Ed. 149, Sweeney v. City of Louisville, 309 Ky. 465, 218 S.W.2d 30, and Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 16 S.Ct. 1138, 41 L.Ed. 256, which cases…