Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad

The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in Kentucky in the United States.

It connected with the Owensboro and Nashville Railway (subsequently part of the L&N network) at Central City in Muhlenberg County.

Wells sued the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad company for refusing to allow her to sit in first class, despite her having purchased a first-class ticket.

[1] The railroad lost the lawsuit and was ordered by pay the $300 maximum fine, plus $500 in damages.

[2] The railroad appealed, and in 1887, the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the decision, ruling that the smoking car she had been given was equivalent to first class.