McFarland v. Goins

Citations

• 96 Miss. 67
• 50 So. 493

Syllabus

<p>'CONSTITUTIONAL Law. Class legislation. Agricultural high school for white youth. Laws 1908, ch. 102, p. 92. Constitution United States, XIV Amendment. Equal protection of law. ' ■</p> <p>Laws 1908, ch. 102, p. 92, authorizing a county to establish one agricultural high school for instruction of its white youth alone, and to support it by a tax on all the taxable property in the county, is violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, its necessary effect being to abridge the privileges or immunities of a class of citizens, or deny them the equal protection of the laws.</p>