Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Hennesey

FLY, Associate Justice.

The appellee sued to recover damages arising from being taken past her destination by appellant, and recovered, in a trial by jury, the sum of $1000.

The grounds of negligence were, that appellee was carried past her destination on a cold, dark night; that the conductor spoke to her in an insulting manner at Sealy, and ordered her to get off the train; that the cars were sometimes hot and at other times cold, whereby she contracted neuralgia; and that had she been permitted to get off at Cane Island on the night she left Houston she would have been met by some one with…