Case Name: T. B. Busboom et al., v. State of Nebraska
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Decision Date: 1923-07-09
Citations: 110 Neb. 629
Docket Number: No. 23130
Parties: T. B. Busboom et al., v. State of Nebraska.
Judges: Heard before Morrissey, C. J., Letton, Rose, Dean, Day and Good, JJ., Raper, District Judge.
Reporter: Nebraska Reports
Volume: 110
Pages: 629–630

Head Matter:
T. B. Busboom et al., v. State of Nebraska.
Filed July 9, 1923.
No. 23130.
Constitutional Law: Schools : Foreign Language Law. Chapter 61, Laws 1921, appearing as sections 6457 to 6462, inclusive, Comp. St. 1922, is void, because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution.
Error to the district court for Lancaster county: Elliott J. Clements, Judge.
Reversed and dismissed.
C. A. Sorensen and F. L. Bollen, for plaintiffs in error.
Clarence A. Davis, Attorney General, and Mason Wheeler, contra.
Heard before Morrissey, C. J., Letton, Rose, Dean, Day and Good, JJ., Raper, District Judge.

Opinion:
Good, J.
Defendants, as officers and persons in authority of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, a religious organization located at Emerald, in Lancaster county, Nebraska, were convicted of unlawfully passing and enforcing and attempting to enforce a prohibition and discrimination against the English language in certain religious meetings and proceedings, held and sought to be held in said county and state, contrary to the provisions of section 6460, Comp. St. 1922, and they bring the case to this court on error.
Said section 6460 was enacted into law as section 4, ch. 61, Laws 1921. Said act appears in the Compiled Statutes of 1922 as sections 6457 to 6462, inclusive. Since the submission of this case in this court, the statute has been held void by the United States supreme court, because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution. Nebraska, District of Evangelical Lutheran Synod v. McKelvie, 262 U. S. 404. See, also, Meyer v. State, 262 U. S. 390. These decisions supersede the opinion of this court in Nebraska District of Evangelical Lutheran Synod v. McKelvie, 108 Neb. 448, and in Meyer v. State, 107 Neb. 657.
Since the statute under which the prosecution was' had is void, it follows that the defendants were unlawfully convicted. The judgment is reversed and the action dismissed.
Revered and dismissed.