Huff v. Norfolk Southern Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from Bond, J., at October Term, 1915, of OeaveN. Civil action to recover damages for alleged wrongful conduct of ■defendant and its employees in compelling plaintiff, a white man, to ride in the coach set apart for colored passengers.
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Appeal by plaintiff from Bond, J., at October Term, 1915, of OeaveN. Civil action to recover damages for alleged wrongful conduct of ■defendant and its employees in compelling plaintiff, a white man, to ride in the coach set apart for colored passengers. Among other things, the evidence tended to show that on 11 July, 1913, plaintiff, a white man and deputy sheriff of Graven County, having in charge a colored prisoner, handcuffed, bought tickets for himself and prisoner at Norfolk, Ya., to New Bern, N. 0., boarded ■defendant’s train running between the two places and started into the ■car…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
While there is learned and forcible decision to the contrary, Smith v. Tenn., 100 Tenn., 494, it seems to be the trend of opinion and the decided intimation of the Supreme Court of the United States on the subject that State legislation of this character may not extend to a case of interstate traffic. Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. v. Ky., 179 U. S., 388; Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S., 537; Hall v. McCuir, 95 U. S., 485; Anderson v. Louisville and Nashville R. R., 62 Fed., 46; State ex rel. Abbot v. Hicks, 44 La. Criminal.
We are not called on, however, to. decide this question on the present…
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