Little Rock Railway & Electric Co. v. Dobbins
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The complaint was in four paragraphs.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court; Edward W. Winfield, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The complaint was in four paragraphs. In the first, appellee alleged that he entered appellant’s car at the Choctaw Depot to become a passenger, and that appellant’s conductor, one Barger, “wrongfully and without cause assailed him with offensive and insulting language, and expelled him from the car, and refused to permit him to re-enter it and resume his rights as a passenger thereon, by reason of which he was insulted and humiliated, to his damages in the sum of $1,500. In the second paragraph, lie alleged…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
(after stating the facts.) Appellant, with commendable compactness, has comprehended what it desires to say upon the twenty-three assignments of error in its motion for new trial in three propositions, viz. :•
1. The verdict was excessive, exemplary damages being erroneously allowed. 2. Improper admission of evidence of false arrest and imprisonment. 3. Error in modifying the 10th prayer of appellant for instruction.
1. The court gave at the instance of appellee the following instruction:
“6. The court instructs the jury that if you find for the plaintiff on the first or second paragraph of his…
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