South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Co. v. Kentucky

Citations

• 252 U.S. 399
• 40 S. Ct. 631
• 64 L. Ed. 631
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1559

Syllabus

<p>A state law requiring interurban railroad companies to supply separóte cars or compartments for white and «colored passengers, and punishing failure to do so, is not an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce as applied to such a railroad, owned by a local corporation and lying wholly within such State, while in control of an allied street car company and in practice operated as part of a streetcar system over which the cars are run to and from a city in another State (where such separation of races is illegal) and passengers are carried through to destination without change for a single fare, those traveling interstate greatly exceeding in number those traveling wholly within the State making the requirement. P. 403.</p>