Civil Rights Cases

being those of United States vs. Stanley, United States vs. Ryan, United States vs. Nichols, United States us. Singleton and Robinson and Wife vs. Memphis and Charleston Rail- -road Company. They were brought before the Supreme Court of the United States, 1883, on certificates of division from the circuit courts respectively of Kansas, California, Mi ouri, New York and Tenne ee. The cases against Stanley and Nichols were on indictments for denying to certain persons the privileges of a hotel, against Ryan and Singleton for denying the privileges of a theater. Robinson sued the railroad company for refusing his wife, a colored woman, the privileges of the ladies’ car. In this latter case and that of Ryan, in which a colored person was plaintiff, judgment was confirmed for the plaintiff, in consideration of the violation of sections one and two of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In the other case judgment was found for the defendants, certain sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 being deemed unconstitutional and void. 153