Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ball

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by the appellee, Edwin Ball, to recover from appellant actual and exemplary damages alleged to have been sustained by the former by the treatment of the railway company to plaintiff’s wife, A. P. Ball, while a passenger on one of its trains. The following are the allegations in appellee’s petition upon which he seeks to hold the appellant liable:

“That said A. P. Ball was and is a respectable white woman. That in violation of the law and of its said contract, said defendant company refused the said A. P. Ball and children permission to ride in a…