Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Fitzgerald

Citations

• 96 Miss. 197
• 50 So. 631

Syllabus

<p>1. RailROAD. Passengers-. Irregularity in tickets. Insults. Punitive damages.</p> <p>Where a woman, about to take passage on a railroad train, to a point in another state, was induced by the carrier to purchase a mileage book, good for transportation only within this state, and board the train on the idea that it was .good to her destination, and, after her mileage had been honored by two conductors in this state and the train was near the state line, was aroused at night from sleep in her berth on a sleeping car, rudely treated and insulted by a third conductor because of. the irregularity in the evidence of her right to be carried, and, after reaching her destination, made to pay fare from the state line, she may in the discretion of the jury recover punitive damages of the railroad company.</p> <p>2. Same. Excessive verdict. Facts.</p> <p>■ Facts of the case considered and two thousand five hundred dollars damages adjudged excessive.</p>