Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Luther

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for an alleged insult to his wife, made by a negro woman while in appellant’s employ as a waitress in attendance on the ladies’ waiting room in the passenger.station of appellant at Fort Worth, Texas, and for alleged nervous prostration of appellee’s wife caused by such insult.

The appellant answered by a general denial and specially that the negro woman was provoked to say what she did by opprobrious epithets addressed to her by appellee’s wife.

The trial of the cause resulted in a verdict and judgment against the…