BENJAMIN OR BEN HARMON

v.

JOSEPH W. TYLER

Citator

Cited By (14 total)

• Shelley et ux. v. Kraemer et ux., 334 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1948)
  …ourteenth Amendment and these statutes enacted in furtherance of its purpose operate to qualify and entitle a colored man to acquire [*12] property without state legislation discriminating against him solely because of color.”10 In Harmon v. Tyler, 273 U. S. 668 (1927), a unanimous court, on the authority of Buchanan v. Warley, supra, declared invalid an ordinance which forbade any Negro to establish a home on any property in a white community or any white person to establish a home in a Negro community, “e…
• Jones et ux. v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (U.S. 1968)
  …is denied the opportunity to purchase the home he wants “[s]olely because of [his] race and color,” 334 U. S., at 34, has suffered the kind of injury that § 1982 was designed to prevent. Accord, Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U. S. 60, 79; Harmon v. Tyler, 273 U. S. 668; Richmond v. Deans, 281 U. S. 704. The basic source of the injury in Hurd was, of course, the action of private individuals — white citizens who had agreed to exclude Negroes from a residential area. But an arm of the Government — in that case, a fe…

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• Hurd et ux. v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24 (U.S. 1948)
  …designated areas to persons of specified race and color as denying rights of white sellers and Negro purchasers of property, guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U. S. 60 (1917); Harmon v. Tyler, 273 U. S. 668 (1927); Richmond v. Deans, 281 U. S. 704 (1930). Petitioners urge that judicial enforcement of the restrictive covenants by courts of the District of Columbia should likewise be held to deny rights of [*30] white sellers and Negro purchasers of prop…

Authorities Cited

• Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (U.S. 1917)