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The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed the district court's affirmance of a workmen's compensation award, finding that O'Connor failed to prove his fall from a window was caused by a heat-stroke suffered during his employment as a hod-carrier.
Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. Lamar F. EastebliNg, Chancellor. Attachment in Chancery, under Code 1906, section 537 (Hemingway’s Code, section 294), in which A. M. Redmond was complainant and the Illinois Central Railroad Company the principal defendant. From a decree for complainant, defendant appeals. The statutes of Tennessee involved in this case are as follow's: “3073 (4927e) 2363. Seating of Passengers. — It shall he the duty of the conductor to see that no passenger occupies more room than he pays for, and that each passenger is provided with a seat as long as one remains vacant on his train. (Id. section 5.) “3074. Separate Coaches or Apartments for White and Colored Races. —All railroads carrying-passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by a partition, so as to secure separate accommodations; hut any person may he permitted to take a nurse in the car or- compartment set aside for such persons. This law shall not apply lfc> mixed and freight trains which only carry one passenger or combination passenger and baggage car, bnt, in such cases, the one passenger car so carried shall always be partitioned into apartments, one apartment for the whites and one for the colored. (1891, ch. 52, section 1.) “3075. Conductors must Separate Passengers.— The conductors of such passenger trains shall have power, and are hereby required, to assign to the ear or compartments of the car, when it is divided by a partition, used for the race to which such passengers belong, and, should any passenger refuse to occupy the ear to which he or she is assigned by such conductor, said conductor shall have power to refuse to carry such passenger on his train; and, for such refusal, neither he nor the railroad company shall be lia
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