Southern Ry. Co. v. Norton

Citations

• 112 Miss. 302
• 73 So. 1

Syllabus

<p>Commerce. Interstate commerce. State police regulations. Separation of races. Constitutional law. Due process of law.</p> <p>Our state statute requiring railroads to provide equal hut separate pullman accommodations for the white and colored races hy providing two or more cars for each train or by dividing the cars so as to secure separate accommodations, where the number of negro passengers in pullman cars is so small as to be negligible, and where the expense of installing accommodations for the two races would be large, is valid as a reasonable police regulation of the state, is not confiscatory and is not a taking of property without due process of law, and it may be enforced as to both intrastate and interstate passengers, regardless of the additional expense imposed upon the common carrier in complying with it.</p>