Missouri Pacific R.R. Co. v. Smith

The appellee, Daisy Davis Smith, brought suit in the circuit court of Jackson county against the Missouri Pacific Eailroad Company and Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, alleging that on the 26th day of September, 1936, she purchased a ticket and boarded a passenger train at Newport, her destination being Wynne, Arkansas. She was seated in one of the coaches provided for negro passengers. The train upon which she was a passenger arrived at Wynne and, according to the allegations of the complaint and the evidence of appellee, none of the employees of appellants called the station or notified appellee…