Cooper v. New Haven Steam-Boat Co.

This action was brought by a colored person to recover a penalty of $500 for being expelled on account of ,his color from the dining-saloon of the defendant’s steam-boat Continental on the fourteenth of February, 1879, in violation of section 2 of the act of March 1, 1875, (18 St. at Large, 336,) commonly known as the civil rights act. The defendant interposed various pleas, including a plea to the jurisdiction. The case being called on the calendar of this court for trial, plaintiff’s counsel stated that the ease seemed to be covered by the recent decision of the supreme court in Robertson…