Gulf, Mobile & N. R. R. Co. v. Thornberry

The appellee recovered a judgment in the sum of $1000 against the appellant railroad company in the circuit court of Pontotoc county for damages on account of humiliation, embarrassment, and mental pain and anguish alleged to have been sustained by her by reason of certain insulting, vulgar and indecent language used by a drunken passenger in her presence on one of the appellant’s trains.

The testimony made an issue for the jury as to whether the conductor observed the condition of the drunken passenger when he took up his ticket on leaving Louisville, and also as to whether he was present and…