Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. Jones

This is an appeal from a judgment for one thousand five hundred dollars, damages alleged to have been sustained by the appellee because of being wrongfully put off of one of the appellant’s trains on which she was a passenger.

The appellant’s complaint is that (1) the verdict should have been directed in its favor, and (2) the damages awarded are excessive.

The appellee was a student at Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi, and was returning to her home at Pontotoc for the Christmas holidays. She boarded a sleeping car on the appellant’s road at Jackson at night and about daylight the next…