Illinois Central R. v. Cox

This is an appeal from a judgment for one thousand four hundred ninety-five dollars against the appellant in favor of the appellee for alleged insulting language of a conductor and the act of the conductor in forcing the appellee to place a negro prisoner in his custody with the appellee in the colored compartment of the passenger train being operated in the state of Tennessee. The appellee had gone to East St. Louis for a negro prisoner charged with murder and was carrying him back to Sunflower county, Miss., for trial on said charge. He boarded the passenger train of the appellant at East…