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FLEMMING v. SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 4386.

128 F.Supp. 469 (1955)

Sarah Mae FLEMMING, Plaintiff, v. SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY, a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

February 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Wittenberg, Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

Cooper & Gary (Paul A. Cooper and Frank B. Gary), Columbia, S. C., for defendant.

TIMMERMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an action brought by plaintiff, a negro woman, claiming damages for alleged violations of her civil rights. She alleges that a bus driver of defendant, acting under color of state law, Sections 1491 to 1496, Title 58, South Carolina Code of Laws 1952, required her to sit in a seat and to use an exit on one of defendant's busses on which she was a passenger that had been reserved for the exclusive occupancy and use of persons of her...

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