Manuel v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad

— This is an action by plaintiff against defendant for ten thousand dollars damages, five thousand dollars actual, and five thousand punitive, alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff by reason of the acts of defendant’s servant and agent in wantonly^ negligently, carelessly and violently catching hold of plaintiff against his will, and throwing him violently to the ground from one of its freight cars upon which he was a trespasser, thereby inflicting upon him great pain and injury.

The answer was a general denial, and a plea of contributory negligence.

*500At the close of the evidence adduced…