Baack, Dyer & Brecht Millinery Co. v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

In this case plaintiff is seeking to recover damages for injury and loss sustained by reason .of defendant’s negligence in carrying, as sample baggage, two trunks in charge of plaintiff’s traveling salesman, who was a passenger on defendant’s road from Mexico to Pulton in the State of Missouri. The ■complaint is that defendant negligently allowed the contents of said trunk to become wet from the rain which came up at Pulton when the trunks arrived. The -case was tried by the court sitting as a jury, and judgment was rendered for $105.75 the full amount of the •damage claimed to the contents…