CAROLINA COACH CO. v. WILLIAMS

No. 6612.

207 F.2d 408 (1953)

CAROLINA COACH CO. v. WILLIAMS.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Wicker, Jr., Richmond, Va. (Paul M. Shuford and Wicker, Baker & Shuford, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Martin A. Martin and Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va. (Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., C. O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., and Hill, Martin & Robinson, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Woods, Rogers, Muse & Walker, Roanoke, Va., on brief for American Bus-lines and others as amici curiæ.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an award of $251 damages to a Negro passenger in an interstate bus on account of his having been wrongfully removed from the bus and prosecuted criminally for refusing to change his seat when ordered to do so by the bus driver. The defendant relies upon regulations of the bus company requiring the separate seating of white and Negro passengers. It appears that plaintiff was originally seated in accordance with the regulations and...

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