Show SHOULD GIVE THE BEST jury finds for plaintiff in suit of mathas against the southern pacific the duties of the railroad companies in regard to farat class passengers with first class accommodations while traveling and saving them from insult and indignities at the hands of intoxicated passengers was established by the jury in judge coart in salt lake yesterday which heard tho evidence in the case of T M mathas against the southern pacific company A verdict was returned just at noon in which plaintiff was awarded damages in the sum of 1000 plaintiff alleges that on april irth he bought a first class ticket and was a passenger on defendants train from san francisco to ogden he claims that he was compelled to tide in a second class car which was without heat and water and was kept in a filthy condition at reno it is alleged that a number of men boarded the car and became intoxicated and boisterous and offered insults to plaintiffs and other first class passengers plaintiff demanded of the conductor that the boisterous passengers be removed or that he be placed in a first class coach but his demands were not heeded and he was compelled to continue his journey to ogden with tho second class passengers because of the poorly heated condition of the car and of the filth and also because of the threats and insults he withstood at the hands of the objectionable passengers plaintiff claimed that his health was injured in the sum of tho jury however cut that amount in two and gave him judgment for 1000 |