Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Georgia Home Insurance
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Dana Blackmar, suing for the use of the Georgia Home Insurance Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the •defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. George Anderson, Judge. Dana Blackmar, suing for the use of the Georgia Home Insurance Company, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the •defendant appealed to the supreme court. Blackmar was the special agent and inspector of the Georgia Home Insurance Company, and on July 1, 1903, purchased a ticket over 'the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad from Natchez, Miss., to Baton Rouge, La., both points being on said railroad.…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Perhaps the definition given by Chief Justice Cockburn in Macrow v. Great Western Railway Co., L. R., 6 (Q. B., 622), is as accurate a definition of “baggage” as can be found. That definition is this: “We hold the true rule to.be that whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, either with reference to the immediate necessities or to the ultimate purpose of the journey, must be considered as personal baggage. This would include not…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Miss. Central Railroad v. KennedyMississippi Supreme Court · 1868
- Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad v. ZwirtzSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1903
- Staub v. KendrickIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Mauritz v. New York, L. E. & W. R. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1884
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