Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from the District Court of Cleveland County. STATEMENT OE THE CASE. The defendant in error, as plaintiff, on the 1st day of March, 1893, filed her complaint in the district court of Cleveland county against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company, claiming that on the 2d .day of September, 1891, she purchased a ticket at Purcell, in the Indian Territory, entitling her to a passage to the station of Moore, in this Territory; that she boarded the train in the…
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Error from the District Court of Cleveland County. STATEMENT OE THE CASE. The defendant in error, as plaintiff, on the 1st day of March, 1893, filed her complaint in the district court of Cleveland county against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad company, claiming that on the 2d .day of September, 1891, she purchased a ticket at Purcell, in the Indian Territory, entitling her to a passage to the station of Moore, in this Territory; that she boarded the train in the night time, and that the conductor, upon taking her ticket and before arriving at the station at Norman, informed her…
1Opinion of the Court
*545The opinion of the court was delivered by
MoAtee, J.:
Various assignments of error are argued in the briefs upon two propositions, to-wit: (1) That the court erred in its instructions to the jury, and in excluding and refusing to submit to the jury certain requests for special findings of fact, as to the question of the right of the jury in this case on the evidence to estimate exemplary or punitive damages in their verdict; and (2) that the evidence was insufficient to uphold a recovery in the case.
The court gave to the jury the following instructions:
“ 3. You are further instructed that if…
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