Emmke v. De Silva
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, Judge. Action by Edna De Silva against John Emmke and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
EEWIS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error recovered a judgment for $3,500 as damages, actual and exemplary, on account of maltreatment while she was a guest in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, under the control and management of plaintiffs in error. The amounts recovered are separately stated in the verdict $2,000 for actual and $1,500 for exemplary damages. We are asked to reverse the judgment -for two principal reasons, first, that the plaintiff did not prove the jurisdictional allegations, and, secondly, that the complaint did not state any ground for relief and the evidence does…
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