Buckner v. Jones

In 1919 Stanley Jones and Eliza, his wife, colored, were living in Baltimore. Stanley, who was employed as a truck driver by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, was also_ a minister of the gospel, and to- augment his earnings occasionally conducted religious services as time and occasion permitted, and Eliza, his wife, contributed to the family exchequer her earnings as a domestic servant. They were a simple, unsophisticated, couple, absorbed in their own small problems and ambitions and wholly unconscious of any necessity for caution in dealing with strangers in business affairs. Stanley,…