On May 15, 1892, the Louisiana State Supreme Court decided to favor the Pullman Company’s claim that the law was unconstitutional as it applied to interstate travel. They Encouraged, the committee to press a test case on intrastate travel. With the cooperation of the East Louisiana Railroad, on June 7, 1892,The Citizens committee asked Plessy, who was technically African-American under Louisiana law, to sit in a whites-only car. He bought a first-class ticket and boarded the whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad in a train for Covington.