Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF ALABAMA. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
A statute of Alabama which took effect on the first of June, 1887, “for the protection of the travelling public against accidents caused by color blindness and defective vision,” declares that all persons afflicted with color blindness and loss of visual <• power to the extent therein defined are “disqualified from serving on railroad lines within the State in the capacity of locomotive engineer, fireman, train conductor, brakeman, station agent, switchman, flagman, gate fender, or signal man, or in any other position which requires the use or discrimination of form or color signals,” and…
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