Illinois Cent. R. v. Hawkins

Citations

• 114 Miss. 110
• 74 So. 775

Syllabus

<p>1. Carriers. Punitive damages. Willful delay in transportation of passengers.</p> <p>Where a railroad company willfully delays a train for two and one-half hours to accommodate fifty school girls who were attending a concert, a passenger who, on account of such delay, fails to make connections with a train going to her destination and was forced to spend a night in a depot hotel, was entitled to recover exemplary damages, the carrier in such case being guilty of a “willful neglect of duty:”</p> <p>2. Carriers. Delay in transportation of passengers. Damages. Mental suffering.</p> <p>Where a case justifies the infliction of exemplary damages, a recovery for mental suffering was proper.</p>