Spenny v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Petition by Y. A. Spenny for certiorari to review and revise the judgment and decision of the Court of Appeals, reversing and remanding the cause of Mobile & Ohio B. B. Go. v. Speivmf, 12 Ala. App. 375, 67 South. 740.
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, C. J.
Sections 5487 and 5488 of the Code of 1907 provide for separate accommodations upon trains for white and negro passengers and section 7684 makes it a misdemeanor for a person to go into or ride upon a coach to which he does not belong. It is evident that the Legislature intended to deal with passengers in the ordinary acceptation of the term and in the usual and ordinary course of travel, and did not have in mind conditions such as presented in the case at bar; that is, a case where a white sheriff attempts to travel with a negro prisoner, and Avho could not travel in or be assigned to…
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