Whiteside v. Southern Bus Lines, Inc.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The question here to be decided in our view narrows to this: Whether a regulation adopted by the appellee for the seating of passengers upon its buses when enforced against the appellant, while a passenger upon an interstate bus, because of her race and color, imposes an undue burden upon interstate commerce. If it does, the appellee was not immune from liability for ejecting the appellant from the vehicle when she refused to change her seat.

The basic facts are not in dispute. The appellant purchased a ticket from an agent of the appellee in St. Louis, Missouri, for…