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RAILROAD COMM'N v. PULLMAN CO.

No. 283.

312 U.S. 496 (1941)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS ET AL. v. PULLMAN COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Cecil A. Morgan for M.B. Cunningham et al.; and Mr. Cecil C. Rotsch, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, with whom Messrs. Gerald C. Mann, Attorney General, Glenn R. Lewis, and Lee Shoptaw, Assistant Attorneys General, were on the brief, for the Railroad Commission et al., appellants.

Mr. Ireland Graves, with whom Messrs. Lowell M. Greenlaw, Herbert S. Anderson, Charles L. Black, Claude Pollard, and F.B. Walker were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In those sections of Texas where the local passenger traffic is slight, trains carry but one sleeping car. These trains, unlike trains having two or more sleepers, are without a Pullman conductor; the sleeper is in charge of a porter who is subject to the train conductor's control. As is well known, porters on Pullmans are colored and conductors are white. Addressing itself to this situation, the Texas Railroad...

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