Pridgen v. Carolina Coach Co.

This appeal is not predicated on the unreasonableness of the rules and regulations of the defendant, nor upon its lack of authority to enforce such rules by having a passenger removed from one of its buses, who refuses to comply therewith. Moreover, we know of nothing that makes segregation per se unconstitutional or violative of any act of Congress. The discrimination forbidden by the Interstate Commerce Act, “is not one of segregation, but one of equality of treatment.” Mitchell v. U. S., 313 U. S., 80, 85 Law Ed., 1201. In Hall v. DeCuir, 95 U. S., 485, 24 Law Ed., 547, and Chiles v.…