Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah

Reversing.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment for five hundred dollars, obtained against appellant railroad company in the Christian Circuit Court, under an indictment charging it with a violation of sections 795 and 796, Kentucky Statutes, known as the “Separate Coach Law.”

■ Section 795 in part provides that all railroad companies operating a railroad in this State “are hereby required to furnish separate coaches of cars for the travel or transportation of the white and colored passengers on their respective lines of railroad. Each compartment of a…