Legal Opinion
Railroad Comm'n of Tex. v. Pullman Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 3, 1941No. 283PublishedCited by 3,448 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
In those sections of Texas where the local passenger traffic is slight, trains carry but one sleeping car. These trains, unlike trains having two or more sleepers, are without%a Pullman conductor; the sleeper is in charge of a porter who is subject to the train conductor’s control. As is well known, porters on Pullmans are colored and conductors are white. Addressing itself to this situation, the Texas Railroad Commission after due hearing ordered that “no sleeping car shall be operated on any line of railroad in the State of Texas . . . unless such cars are continuously in the charge of an…
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