70 Miss. 725 | Miss. | 1893
delivered the opinion of the court.
We would affirm this judgment but for erroneous instructions for the defendant. The first contains the erroneous proposition that it was necessary for the plaintiff to prove that she had sustained damages. Not so.' The law implies damages for every wrong. The third instruction announces non-liability of the defendant, if the plaintiff was ejected from the waiting-room by an officer, without regard to the inquix-y whether the officer acted under the direction of the
The second modification by the court of the first instruction for the plaintiff by the words “or comfortable waiting,” as applied to the waiting-room for colored people, is subject to the criticism that it ignores distance, and had better be avoided on another trial.
Reversed and remanded.