Baker Co. v. Turpin

This appeal is prosecuted by the Baker Company, appellant herein, from a judgment of the district court in favor of Mrs. Sarah Turpin, appellee herein, for actual and exemplary damages for false imprisonment and forcible ejectment from its hotel building in the city of Dallas.

Appellee, at the time the events occurred out of which this suit arose, was Mrs. Sarah Mitchell, a widow. Before the trial she married her coappellee, E. G. Turpin, who thereupon joined her in this suit. The. Baker Company is a corporation and at the time the events occurred as aforesaid, operated the Baker Hotel in said…