Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad v. Little

Citations

• 66 Kan. 378
• 71 P. 820
• 61 L.R.A. 122
• 1903 Kan. LEXIS 65

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Railroads — Injury to Passenger — Representations of Employees. A passenger going upon a railroad-train has a right to rely on the representations of a local ticket agent, and on those of the railroad company’s agent in charge thereof, that such train will stop at a certain place to which he has purchased a ticket and desires to ride, and the company will be liable to such passenger in damages, if he be compelled to leave the train before arriving at his destination because, by the general rules of the company, unknown to the passenger, such train is not scheduled to stop at such station.</p> <p>2. -Exemplary Damages. Exemplary or punitive damages may be awarded, where a wrong has in it the element of negligence which is gross or wanton or wilfully oppressive.</p> <p>3. - Humiliation and Disgrace. An indignity need not be done to one in the presence of a number of people in order to entitle the person wronged to recover damages for the humiliation and disgrace suffered.</p>