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COCHRAN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

No. 468.

281 U.S. 370 (1930)

50 S.Ct. 335

74 L.Ed. 913

COCHRAN ET AL. v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 28, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Challen B. Ellis, with whom Messrs. Wade H. Ellis, Daniel C. Roper, W.D. Jamieson, Herbert S. Ward, James U. Galloway, and Nash Johnson were on the brief, for appellants.

Messrs. Percy Saint, Attorney General of Louisiana, Peyton R. Sandoz, Assistant Attorney General, H.H. White and Walter J. Burke were on the brief for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellants, as citizens and taxpayers of the State of Louisiana, brought this suit to restrain the State Board of Education and other state officials from expending any part of the severance tax fund in purchasing school books and in supplying them free of cost to the school children of the State, under Acts No. 100 and No. 143 of 1928, upon the ground that the legislation violated specified provisions...

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