Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Morris

Citations

• 103 Miss. 511
• 60 So. 11

Syllabus

<p>1. Railroads. Transportation of passengers. Separation of Passengers. Code 1906, section 1351-4059. Civil rights. Damages. Excessiveness.</p> <p>Sections 1351 and 4059, Code 1906, were intended to apply to sleeping cars as well as to all other cars composing the trains of common carriers doing business in this state. It was the purpose of the legislature to separate the races and also to provide for the fair and equal treatment of the members of each race.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>This statute applies to interstate travelers aboard trains forming a part of a chain of carriers engaged in the business of transporting passengers taken within the state for carriage to a point without the state, and so construed is not invalid, as an interference with interstate commerce, but is a reasonable exercise of the police powers of the state. •</p> <p>3. Civil Rights. Separate accommodations. Damages. Excessiveness.</p> <p>In a suit for damages by a white passenger against a railroad company for assigning her tó a sleeping car in which negroes - were being carried a judgment for fifteen thousand dollars was excessive and would be reversed unless all but two thousand dollars was remitted.</p>