Lee Line Steamers v. Page
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee; John E. McCall, Judge. Action by Hannah Page against the Dee Dine Steamers. There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SESSIONS, District Judge.
Plaintiff is a colored woman and lives with her husband and children at Edmondson, a little place in Arkansas about six miles back in the country from Scanlan Danding on the Mississippi river. On Monday, February 1, 1915, she and two of her children, aged l5 and 17 years, respectively, purchased tickets and took passage on one of defendant’s boats from Greenville, Miss., to Scanlan, which was a regular stopping place for the boat. She had previously written her husband to meet her and the children at Scanlan with a conveyance to carry them and their luggage to their…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1896
- Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. BuckIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
- Brown v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
- Malone v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Pullman Palace Car Co. v. BarkerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1878
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