Rutherford v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

The appellant, as plaintiff, sued appellees, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad Company, to recover damages for offensive and insulting conduct of a conductor of the former company’s passenger train toward appellant’s wife, Mrs. Bird Rutherford, and the refusal of said conductor to accept the ticket presented by Mrs. Rutherford for her fare from Fort Worth to Mount Vernon; thereby causing her great'mental distress, humiliation, and shame; and also for $5.20, which she was wrongfully compelled to pay for her fare.