Spears v. Continental Bus System, Inc.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This is a suit for substantial money damages on account of alleged violations of plaintiff’s civil rights, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985. Plaintiff, who claims to be a negro lawyer with forty-six years experience, alleges that on November 13, 1956, being a fare-paying passenger holding a ticket on a bus line operated by some of the defendants, at the bus station in Shreveport, Louisiana, he was “* * * unlawfully and wrongfully assaulted, abused, humiliated, shocked and threatened with being placed in jail * * * by defendants’ servants, agents, and…