Ammons v. Murphree

By her declaration, amendment thereto and bill of particulars in aid thereof, appellant, a white woman, averred that on or about August 4, 1933, she took passage, at Jackson, Mississippi, on an all-Pullman train known as the "Know Mississippi Better Train," which train was under the joint management and control of the defendants, Murphree, the Pullman Company, and the Illinois Central Railroad Company. That she had reserved and fully paid for lower berth No. 2 in one of the sleeping cars which formed a part of said train, and that on that night, while within the State of Mississippi, she…