Bennett Ex Rel. Bennett v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action for damages alleged to have resulted from inhuman conduct on the part of defendant’s conductor towards plaintiff. The cause was tried to a jury. Judgment went against defendant and this appeal followed. At a previous term we handed down an opinion in this cause, but granted a rehearing and the cause was reargued.

It is alleged that on August 16, 1925, plaintiff, purchased a ticket of defendant’s agent at Zalma, Missouri, entitling her to transportation on defendant’s passenger train from Zalma to Poplar Bluff, Missouri; that she boarded defendant’s passenger train running…