Peck v. Cooper

In December, 1871, in. the city of Chicago, Timothy Cooper, a colored person, was forcibly ejected from an omnibus in which he had taken his seat as a passenger, by one Harry Lewis, the driver. The omnibus in question was the property of The People’s Omnibus and Baggage Company, a corporation organized under a special act of the General Assembly, and was being used by said company at the time in the business of carrying passengers for hire, upon certain streets in said city. Cooper, desiring to go from one point to another on the regular route over which the omnibus was being run, entered it,…