Greyhound Corp. v. Stevens

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

In July, 1962, while Jacqueline Stevens was a passenger on The Greyhound Corporation’s bus, making an interstate trip from Houston, Texas, to Dover, Delaware, her luggage and its contents were lost by Greyhound. Her baggage was checked free *440on one passenger ticket or fare. She sued for the value of the bags and contents. Greyhound, relying on rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission and federal decisions, principally the Hooker case, hereinafter discussed, tendered to Miss Stevens $25.00, as the limit of its liability for loss of her baggage. In a trial to the court,…