The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-11-08

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said railroad, in said city of Evansville,
TO the station of said railroad, in said
city of jacksonville, in Kentucky, upon
any regular train of said company pass
ing through said places and stopping for
the purpose OF receiving and letting off
passengers.
They further state that they did on
that day, when the regular passenger
train, known as the Providence accom-
mediation train, was getting ready to
start from Evansville toward Nashville,
get aboard of said train, and take seats
thereon, in the coach usually known as
the ladies' coach, which is the incest,
cleanest and best equipped coach on said
train, and is the hindmost coach thereof.
They state that soon after said train
started, the conductor thereof, who as
| the agent of the defendant had the
charge and control of said train, came in
said coach, in which the plaintiff and his
wife had so taken their seats, and with
| out making any objection to their .occu-
plying of said seats, or offering to assign
any other seats, or any other coach, to
, them, demanded and received from them
their said tickets, and in lieu thereof
| that they were entitled to 80 ride on said
| train and in said coach, without disturb
ance, until said train reached the city of
Henderson in the state of Kentucky,
when the said conductor, in charge of
said train, came to them and required
them to leave said coach in which they
had been seated ever since they left
Evansville, and informed them that he
had assigned them seats in another
coach, and would not allow them to ride
further on the train, unless they would
occupy the seats so assigned by him to
them. This they refused to do, and
thereupon, said conductor, by force and.
arms and without right and contrary to
| law, and in violation of their contract of
carriage as above set out, and to the great
humiliation and injury OF plaintiff and
his said wife, in their persons and feel
ings and business, then and there put
them off OF said train and refused to al
low them to continue their journey.
The plaintiff further states that the
car or coach in which the conductor thus
proposed to assign them seats was the
coach just in front of the ladies' coach
in which they were seated and next to
the baggage car; that it was not so well
equipped or furnished as the coach be-
hind it nor was it kept as clearly and
nice as said rear coach.
Their further state that it was divided
into two compartments by wooden
division or partition with a door in it,
and that they were required to occupy
the rear compartment, which was the
only part of said train that had been as
signed to colored people; that the front
compartment of said car was assigned to
white male passengers, who were allow
ed to smoke cigars and tobacco therein.
The plaintiff states that, by the wrong
full acts of said conductor in so ejecting
them from said train, and refusing to al
low them to occupy the seats they had
first taken or remain in said coach, and
thus complete their journey, they were
damaged in at least the sum of $4,000.
Wherefore he prays judgment against
defendant for said sum OF SIS, 900, for his
costs and for all proper relief.
JOHN FELAND,