Show I RESTRICTION I ON NEGROES I GIVEN OKEH Missouri Supreme Court Holds Zoning Laws Legal Supporting a restrIction covenant a occupation of a resIdence district by negroes an alternative wrIt or of mandamus has Just been Jeen Issued by the MIssourI supreme court against Judge George Georg-e E 1 Mix Ix ot of divisIon No 10 2 ot of St. St Louis ear ear- I I cult court The action was taken I in a case brought by property owners own own- ers CIS in a St S1 Louis area under restriction restriction re- re by covenant ot of property owners agaInst such occupation Its purpose Is to compel enforcement enforce enforce- nent ment of an Injunction Issued In 1926 a against the occupancy ot of property n 11 the restricted dIstrIct by ne negroes roes The supreme court of the United States Hats while holding city ordinances zonIng districts dis- dis a against occupation by persons I ot of the white race or ot of the negro race has held constitutional private pd- pd vate restriction agreements entered I into by property owners the National National Na- Na Association or of Real Estate Boards points ou out The Tho court In a decision handed down March 14 1927 1921 held beld al an ordinance of the city ot of New Orleans which would have made it unlawful for any white person person per per- son to establish his home or residence residence resi- resi dence In a negro community or orvIce orvice vIce versa except on the written consent ot of a majority ot of the persons persons per per- sons ot of the opposite race inhabIting that community On the other hand the court In Inthe inthe the case ot of CorrIgan vs VB Buckley In a decision handed down in 1926 held valid private restrictions placed on residential property by indentures or agreements prohibitIng prohibit prohibit- Ing the sale or conveyance ot of the property to negroes The covenant In the case In question question ques- ques tion the court held did not Invade the constitutional rights of colored persons Inasmuch as they had the right to enter Into sImilar agreements agreements agree agree- ments to keep white persons or other persons deemed undesirable out ot of colored neighborhoods The decision thus extends the question a mere distinction on a basis ot of color and upholds the right of any group to cove covenant ant to keep out ot of theIr community any class ot of occupancy deemed unde- unde |