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CHILES v. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY

No. 158.

218 U.S. 71 (1910)

30 S.Ct. 667

54 L.Ed. 936

CHILES v. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Alexander Chiles, plaintiff in error pro se, with whom Mr. B.E. Smith, Mr. W.L. Ricks and Mr. Albert S. White were on the brief.

Mr. John T. Shelby, with whom Mr. Henry T. Wickham and Mr. Henry Taylor, Jr., were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff in error is a colored man. He bought a first-class ticket from defendant in error, a corporation engaged in operating a line of railroad from the city of Louisville, State of Kentucky, and the city of Cincinnati, State of Ohio, to the city of Washington, District of Columbia. The ticket entitled him to ride from Washington to Lexington, Kentucky.

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