Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 66 — Prosecution Against the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. for Failure to Furnish Separate Coaches for White and Colored Passengers. APPEAL FROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT — JAMBS S. MORRIS, SPECIAL JUDGE. Defendant Convicted and Appeals. 1. We submit that the indictment in this case is insufficient, there being no allegation that at the time named in the indictment, or at any other time, the C. & O. Ry.
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Case 66 — Prosecution Against the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. for Failure to Furnish Separate Coaches for White and Colored Passengers. APPEAL FROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT — JAMBS S. MORRIS, SPECIAL JUDGE. Defendant Convicted and Appeals. 1. We submit that the indictment in this case is insufficient, there being no allegation that at the time named in the indictment, or at any other time, the C. & O. Ry. Oo. ever operated a passenger train, or train for the transportation of passengers, through Shelby county, and failed to have such train furnished with separate coaches or cars. 2. It is a part of…
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Opinion op the court by
JUDGE SETTEE'
Reversing.
The appellant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, was tried, convicted, and fined $500 in the Shelby circuit court, under an indictment charging it with having willfully and unlawfully failed to furnish for the transportation of white and colored passengers on its line of railroad a separate coach, each compartment divided by a good and substantial wooden partition with a door therein, and . each bearing in some conspicuous place, in plain letters, appropriate words indicating the racé for which it was set apart. Appellant asks a reversal of the…
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