McCabe v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United Stales for the Western District of Oklahoma. ■ Suit by F. P. McCabe and others against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company and others. From a decree o_f dismissal rendered after sustaining a demurrer to the bill, complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This case turns upon the validity or true construction of an act of the Eegislature of Oklahoma, approved De*968cember 18, 1907 (Comp. Raws Old. 1909, p. 271, c. 9, art. 2, § 434 et seq.), requiring every railroad company doing business in that state as a common carrier of passengers to provide separate coaches or compartments for the accommodation of the white and negro races, equal in all points of comfort and convenience, and to maintain separate waiting rooms at all their passenger depots for the accommodation of those races also equal in all points of comfort and…
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