Court Opinion

ID: 9418416
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:24:56.07197+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:02.728211
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Mr. Justice Day,
dissenting.
This case is controlled by the disposition made of No. 252. While it is true that the Erlanger Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Kentucky, the proof shows that its road was built and operated by the South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Company as "part of the latter’s system. This is not a proceeding to test the right to operate the road. The conviction is justified because the local company permitted the principal company to operate without separate coaches or compartments for its colored passengers. The traffic conducted is of an interstate nature, and the same reasons which impel a dissent in No. 252 require a like dissent in the present case. '•
In my opinion the single traffic over both railroads being *411interstate, the regulation embodied in the statute and for which the conviction was had, as to both roads, is an unreasonable and burdensome interference with interstate commerce.
Mr. Justice Van Devanter and Mr. Justice Pitney concur in this dissent.