Interesting Suit

The Marietta Register, July 12, 1866:

Mong Chaw Loo, who lectured in Marietta on the evenings of July 1st and 2d, has brought suit against the Muskingum river packet J. H. Best, because he was refused a seat at the first table on that boat last week, on which he was a passenger having paid full fare - refused for being a "colored person." He lays his damages at $5,000 for "mental and bodily anguish suffered." Ewart, Shaw & Sibley for the plaintiff; Knowles & Loomis for the defendant.

Mong Chaw Loo is a native of Burmah in Asia. He is about 25 years of age, and has been in this country eight years, obtaining an education. He is a graduate of the Baptist Literary and Theological Institution at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He has been studying medicine at Cleveland and expects to attend medical lectures at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, during the coming year, preparatory to returning to his native Burmah as a Missionary.

"Shaw Loo" 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Loo

According to Washington County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court Journal, Volume 17, page 364, the case of "Mong Shaw Loo" was continued until February 2, 1869, when it was "settled and costs paid."  

Mong Chaw Loo is identified as "Shaw Loo" in a Wikipedia entry. He was born in 1839 in Moulmein, Myanmar, Burma. In 1857, he traveled to the United States and enrolled at Lewisburg University (now Bucknell), the first Burmese student to study in the U.S. Following graduation, he enrolled in the Cleveland Medical College (now Case Western Reserve School of Medicine), receiving an M.D. in 1867. Upon returning to Burma, he entered a lifelong career as a physician and author in Moulmein. Shaw Loo is called the "father of modern medicine" in Myanmar. He died in 1929, aged 90. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Loo