Spearman v. Toye Bros. Auto & Taxicab Co.

This is a suit for damages. The plaintiff charges that, while she was riding on the front seat of a sight-seeing car operated by the defendant as a public conveyance, the chauffeur, "with his right hand, grasped her left thigh, squeezing it, greatly to her humiliation, mortification, mental pain, and anguish." She claims $15,000 damages "for the humiliation, mental anguish, pain, and suffering" which she says she endured "as the result of the insult and outrage." There is no claim for damages for physical injury, nor allegation that any such injury was inflicted. The civil district court,…