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Show Mental Anguish. Don't Hold. LA PORTE,' Ind., Dec. 8. Judge Tuthlll. In the Superior court, haa made a ruling that damages cannot be recovered for mental anguish an-guish alone. Ten members of the Joyce family fam-ily of Chicago, sued the Pennsylvania Railroad Rail-road company for 830.000 because they and the body of Mra. Sarah Joyce en route from Chicago to Leetonia, O., failed to reach their destination on time and It waa necessary to bury the body without the full rites lot the Catholic church. Tha court dismissed tka suit when the evidence of the plaintiffs showed only mental distress as their barns for action. |