Coger v. North West. Union Packet Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee Disi/riet Oowrt. Frida?, September 19. Action at law to recover damages sustained by plaintiff for an assault and battery committed upon ber by the officers of a steamboat used by defendant as a common carrier in navigating the Mississippi river, while she was a passenger thereon, and for forcibly and with violence, removing her from the dinner table of said boat, without cause, and for no improper conduct on her part.
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Appeal from Lee Disi/riet Oowrt. Frida?, September 19. Action at law to recover damages sustained by plaintiff for an assault and battery committed upon ber by the officers of a steamboat used by defendant as a common carrier in navigating the Mississippi river, while she was a passenger thereon, and for forcibly and with violence, removing her from the dinner table of said boat, without cause, and for no improper conduct on her part. The defense pleaded in the answer sets up, at great length, that plaintiff is a colored woman, and that there was a custom or a regulation of all boats of…
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch. J.
I. The plaintiff, being in the city of Keokuk, went upon the steamer S. S. Merrill, one of defendant’s line of packets navigating the Mississippi river, for the purpose of conveying freight and passengers, to be transported to her home at the city of Quincy, in the State of Illinois. She is a quadroon, being partly of African descent, and was employed as the teacher of a school for colored children in the city where she resided. She applied at the office of the vessel for a ticket and was given one entitling her to transportation, but not to a state-room nor to meals, such as…
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