Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Wallace

Appellee, a negro, instituted this suit in the Sixty-Fifth district court of El Paso county, Tex., against appellant company alleging: (1) That he was a passenger on the train of appellant by virtue of the purchase of a first-class ticket from Shreveport, La., to San Diego, Cal.; (2) that it was the duty of appellant to furnish to negroes, while riding on' its trains in the state of Texas, coaches, or compartments for their accommodation, separate from the white passengers, equal in all points of comfort and convenience with those furnished white passengers who held tickets of the same grade;…