Illinois Central Railroad v. Dunnigan
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom tbe circuit court of, first district, Panola county. PIon. William A. Roane, Judge. Dunnigan, appellee, was plaintiff in tbe court below; the-railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom tbe circuit court of, first district, Panola county. PIon. William A. Roane, Judge. Dunnigan, appellee, was plaintiff in tbe court below; the-railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor tbe defendant appealed to the supreme court. Plaintiff, a minister of tbe Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America, sued tbe railroad company to recover alleged damages for defendant’s refusal to permit him to travel over its lines at tbe customary gratuitously reduced rates allowed to ministers of tbe gospel. Tbe declaration shows on its face no cause of…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
It being the custom of appellant to give ministers of the gospel a permit to travel over its lines at the reduced rate of two cents per mile, appellee, being a minister of the gospel of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America, applied to appellant for such a permit, which appellant refused to give him, assigning no reason therefor. Thereupon this suit was instituted by appellee to recover damages for such refusal; the declaration alleging that the same was a wilful, wanton, oppressive, and unlawful discrimination against him. Erom a judgment awarding damages to appellee, this appeal…
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