South Covington c. Ry. Co. v. Kentucky

4 Citing cases

  1. Morgan v. Virginia

    328 U.S. 373 (1946)   Cited 125 times
    Indicating that the power to establish uniform rules of naturalization requires geographic uniformity

    As was said in Hall v. DeCuir, 95 U.S. 485, 489, 'commerce cannot flourish in the midst of such embarrassments.'"South Covington Cincinnati R. Co. v. Kentucky, 252 U.S. 399, relied upon by appellee, does not decide to the contrary of the holding in Hall v. DeCuir. In that case a carrier corporation was convicted in the Kentucky courts of violation of a state statute that required it to furnish cars with separate compartments for white and colored.

  2. Di Santo v. Pennsylvania

    273 U.S. 34 (1927)   Cited 125 times
    Calling the Court's formal approach "too mechanical, too uncertain in its application, and too remote from actualities, to be of value"

    than to provide a test of the locomotive engineer's skill, Smith v. Alabama, 124 U.S. 465; or eyesight, Nashville, Chattanooga, St. Louis Ry. v. Alabama, 128 U.S. 96; or requiring that passenger cars be heated and guard posts placed on bridges, N.Y., N.H., H.R.R. Co. v. New York, 165 U.S. 628; or requiring every railway to cause three of its regular passenger trains to stop each way daily at every village containing over three thousand inhabitants. Lake Shore Michigan Southern R.R. Co. v. Ohio, 173 U.S. 285; or to require trains to limit within a city their speed to six miles an hour, Erb v. Morasch, 177 U.S. 584; or to establish a standard for the locomotive headlight, Atlantic Coast Line R.R. v. Georgia, 234 U.S. 280; or to prescribe "full crews," Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Ry. v. Arkansas, 219 U.S. 453; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Ry. Co. v. Arkansas, 240 U.S. 518; or to compel the providing of separate coaches for whites and colored persons, South Covington, etc., Ry. v. Kentucky, 252 U.S. 399; or to compel a railroad to eliminate grade crossings, although the expense involved may imperil its solvency, Erie R.R. Co. v. Public Utility Commissioners, 254 U.S. 394, 409-412 — state requirements sustained by this Court. See also Engel v. O'Malley, 219 U.S. 128, 138.

  3. Penna v. West Virginia

    262 U.S. 553 (1923)   Cited 448 times
    Holding that Pennsylvania might sue to enjoin restraints on the commercial flow of natural gas

    If the gas companies owe a duty to the people of West Virginia, the performance of that duty cannot be evaded merely because they prefer to enter into interstate commerce rather than to perform it. Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter, 209 U.S. 348; Manufacturers Light Co. v. Ott, 215 F. 940, 951; South Covington Ry. Co. v. Kentucky, 252 U.S. 399; Erie R.R. Co. v. Public Commissioners, 254 U.S. 394.

  4. Morgan v. Commonwealth

    184 Va. 24 (Va. 1945)   Cited 8 times

    But unless the regulation unreasonably burdens commerce it is valid. In South Covington, etc., R. Co. v. Kentucky, 252 U.S. 399, 40 S.Ct. 378, 64 L.Ed. 631, it was held that a Kentucky street railway may be required by statute of that State to furnish separate cars or separate compartments in the same car for white and Negro passengers, although its principal business is the carriage of passengers in interstate commerce between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kentucky cities across the Ohio river. It was held that such a requirement affects interstate commerce only incidentally and does not subject it to unreasonable demands.