817, 99 N. W. 681. Or, as otherwise defined, civil rights are rights appertaining to a person in virtue ‘Of his citizenship in a state or community. Rights capable of being enforced or redressed in a civil action. Also a term applied to certain rights secured to citizens of the United States by the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution, and by various acts of congress made in pursuance thereof. Iowa v. Railroad Co. (C. C.) 37 Fed. 493, 8 L. R. A.°554; State v. Powers, 51 N. J. Law, 482, 17 Atl 969; Bowles v. Habermann, ‘95 N. ¥. 247; People v. Washington, 36 Cal. 658; Fletcher v. Tuttle, 151 IL 41, 37 N. B. 683, 25 L. RB. A. 143, 42 Am. St. Rep. 220;