Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway Co. v. Groner

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Appellee, W. C. Groner, on January 30, 1905, instituted suit in the District Court of Jack County to recover damages to himself and wife in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, resulting from alleged negligence on appellant’s part in failing to keep certain of its depots suEciently warmed while Mrs. Groner was detained therein waiting to take certain trains as a. passenger, by reason of which it was charged she contracted a deep-seated cold, causing mental and physical pain, loss of time, expense of sickness and probably death.

On the day of the trial, September 12, 1905,…