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706, where Pardee, J., after discussing the authorities, holds that the weight is against it; and where the mental suffering complained of was not the proximate cause of the injury, this was said to render it unnecessary to consider whether, under a statute giving a right of action for refusal or delay of a telegram, it was held a proper element of damages; Stafford v. Telegraph Co., 73 Fed. 273; Stansell v. Telegraph Co., 107 Fed. 668; Southern Pac. Co. v. lletzer, 136 Fed. 272, 68 C. C. A. 26, 1 L. R. A. (N. S.) 288. It was darly settled that substantial damages might be recovered in a class of actions of tort where the only injury suffered is mental, such as cases: Of assault without physical contact; 3 0. & P. 373; Goddard v. Grand Trunk By., 67 Me. 202, 2 Am. Rep. tiff has not been touched by the defendant; 6 0. & P. 774; 4 Bing. N. C. 212; Hawk v. Ridgway, 33 111. 473; for the mutilation of a husband’s body by dissection; Larson v. Chase, 47 Minn. 307, 60 N. W. 238, 14 L. R. A. 85, 28 Am. St. Rep. 370; for wrongful or wanton removal of a child’s body from a burial lot; Meagher v. Driscoll, 99 Mass. 281, 96 Am. Dec. 759; for wrongful ejection from a train; Shepard v. R. Co., 77 la. 64, 41 N. W. 664; for slander and libel; Terwilliger V. Wands, 17 N. Y. 54, 72 Am. Dec. 420; for malicious prosecution; Fisher v. Hamilton, 49 Ind. 341; where a conductor kissed a woman passenger against her will; Craker V. R. Co., 36 Wls. 657, 17 Am. Rep. 504; in a suit for the alienation of a husband’s affections; Nevins v. Nevins, 68 Kan. 410, 75 Pac. 492; for a mother’s physical injury resulting from mental suffering caused by the mistreatment of her daughter by a railroad company’s employees; Gulf, O. & S. F. R. Co. V. Coopwood (Tex.) 96 S. W. 102; contra, Sanderson v. R. Co., 88 Minn. 162, 92 N. W. 542, 60 L. R. A. 403, 97 Am. St. Rep. 609; abuse of passenger by a carrier’s agent; St. Louis, I. M. & S. R. Co. v. Taylor, 84 Ark. 42, 104 S. W. 551, 13 L. R. A. (N. S.) 159; where a conductor wi'ongfully takes up plaintiff’s commutation ticket, following a public altercation with the plaintiff, who was a passenger; Harris v. R. Co., 77 N. J. L. 278, 72 Atl. 50; also where ‘a passenger is wrongfully ejected from a railroad train; Lindsay v. R. Co., 13 Idaho 477, 90 Pac. 984, 12 L. R. A. (N. S.) 184; but a non-commissioned ofiicer in the Navy, who, in uniform, is refused admission to a dance hall on a ticket bought by him, can recover only the price of the ticket; Buenzle v. Amusement Ass’n, 29 R. I. 23, 68 Atl. 721, 14 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1242.; a parent cannot recover damages for mental shock and distress because his minor children have been unlawfully arrested on a charge of malicious mischief; Sperier v. Ott, 116 La. 1087, 41 South. 323, 7