“A Manifest Error Hath Happened”, 1882

‘’. . . the question of the construction of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and the decision was against such clause of said Constitution as applicable to said cause – a manifest error hath happened to the great damage of the said Toney Pace . . .”

“A Manifest Error Hath Happened” 1882

Tony Pace and Mary Jane Cox challenged the constitutionality of the Alabama statute that outlawed interracial sexual relations, claiming it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

National Archives, Records of the Supreme Court of the United States