Flemming v. South Carolina Electric & Gas Company

TIMMERMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an action brought by plaintiff, a negro woman, claiming damages for alleged violations of her civil rights. She alleges that a bus driver of defendant, acting under color of state law, Sections 1491 to 1496, Title 58, South Carolina Code of Laws 1952, required her to sit in a seat and to use an exit on one of defendant’s busses on which she was a passenger that had been reserved for the exclusive occupancy and use of persons of her race. Plaintiff claims that such action on the part of defendant’s bus driver violated Sections 1981 and 1983, Title 42 U.S.Code,…