Illinois Cent. R. v. Cox

This - case was before this court on a former appeal and is reported in 132 Miss. 471, 96 So. 685, where a full statement of the facts is set forth in the opinion. In the former case we held that a carrier of passengers may adopt and enforce rules requiring passengers to exhibit tickets before entering trains., and also held that under the laws of Tennessee where the action arose the law required the separation of white and colored passengers, and that where a sheriff was in charge of a person of the colored race that he was not entitled to ride in the white compartment, with his negro…