Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Morris
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Pearl Morris against the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway Company.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Pearl Morris against the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. . The sections of the Code of 1906 under review are as follows: “4059. Every railroad carrying passengers in this state shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races by providing two or more passenger cars for each’passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by a partition to secure separate accommodations ; and the conductor of such passenger train shall have…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
Appellee procured a ticket from appellant railway company which entitled her to passage on appellant’s railway from Vicksburg to Meridian (both points within this state), and from the latter place, over the lines of connecting carriers, to the city of New York. In addition to the railway ticket, appellee purchased from the agent of appellant a sleeping car check entitling her to a berth on the Pullman car attached to and forming a part of appellant’s train.
"When appellee boarded the train at. Vicksburg, she discovered as her fellow passengers three men of the negro race, and protested to the…
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