Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OR RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA. The plaintiffs in error, Gumming, Harper and Ladeveze, citizens of Georgia and persons of color suing on behalf of themselves' and all others in like case joining with them, brought this action against the Board of Education of Richmond Gounty and Charles S. Bohler, tax collector.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OR RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA. The plaintiffs in error, Gumming, Harper and Ladeveze, citizens of Georgia and persons of color suing on behalf of themselves' and all others in like case joining with them, brought this action against the Board of Education of Richmond Gounty and Charles S. Bohler, tax collector. In the petition filed by them it was alleged — That the plaintiffs were residents, property owners and taxpayers of Richmond County, the defendant Board being a corporation created under an act of the General Assembly of Georgia of August 23, 1872, regulating…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This writ of error brings up for review a final order made in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia, in conformity to a judgment rendered in the Supreme Court of the State. That order, it is contended, deprived the plaintiffs in error of rights secured to them by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The Supreme Court of Georgia after stating in its opinion that counsel for the petitioners did not point out in his brief what particular paragraph of the Fourteenth Amendment was violated, said: “ If it be the first, he does not point out. what clause of that…
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