Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Co. v. Kentucky
Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Co. v. Kentucky
Dissenting Opinion
dissenting.
This case is controlled by the disposition made of No. 252. While it is true that the Erlanger Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Kentucky, the proof shows that its road was built and operated by the South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Company as "part of the latter’s system. This is not a proceeding to test the right to operate the road. The conviction is justified because the local company permitted the principal company to operate without separate coaches or compartments for its colored passengers. The traffic conducted is of an interstate nature, and the same reasons which impel a dissent in No. 252 require a like dissent in the present case. '•
In my opinion the single traffic over both railroads being
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was argued with No. 252, South Covington & Cincinnati Street Ry. Co. v. Kentucky, ante, 399. It was disposed of by the Court of Appeals with that case in one opinion. The company was indicted as the other company was for a violation of the Separate Coach Law of the State and found guilty. The facts are in essence the same as in the other case, though the indictment is more elaborate. The defenses and contentions are the same. We have stated them, and upon what they are based, and the character and relation of the companies, in our opinion in the other case.
The company is an interurban road and the Separate Coach Law is applicable to it. It was incorporated under the general laws of the State and authority conferred upon it to construct and operate an electric railway from the City of Covington to the town of Erlanger, and to such further point beyond Erlanger as ¿light be determined. It was constructed from Covington to a point just beyond the suburban town called Fort Mitchell, a town of. a few hundred inhabitants.
The South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company furnished the means to build the road, and at the time covered by the indictment was operating the road as part of its railway system as described in the other case.
The intimate relations of the roads as stated by the Court-of Appeals, we have set forth in the other case, and it is only necessary to add -that the indictment in the present case charges that the company in this case was
Our reviewing power, we think, is limited to the last point, that is, the effect of the law'as an interference" with interstate commerce, and that we disposed of in the other case. The distinction counsel make between street railways and other railways, and between urban and interurban roads, we are not concerned with.
Judgment' affirmed.
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- Cincinnati, Covington & Erlanger Railway Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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- Decided on the authority of South Covington & Cincinnati Street Ry. Co. v. Kentucky, ante, 399. ' '