McBride v. Hosey

SUTTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Forty-First District Court of El Paso County. On the verdict of a jury the trial court entered judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $2500, $2000 actual and $500 exemplary damages. The parties will be described here as in the trial court.

Appellee, as plaintiff below, sued the defendant to recover actual damages in the sum of $2500, and exemplary damages in a like sum for the wrongful eviction of plaintiff from a room in the Laughlin Hotel, of which defendant is and was the proprietor, and operated in the city of El Paso.

Plaintiff alleged that he…