Pullman Co. v. Franks

This suit was brought against appellant by appellee Mrs. Pranks, joined by her husband, to recover the sum of $230 which she alleged was stolen from her while she was a passenger occupying a berth in one of appellant’s sleeping cars. The petition charges, first, that said money was stolen from plaintiff’s berth in said car by a servant of appellant who was employed as porter on said car. It then charges in the alternative:

That, “if the said porter did not purloin the said $230, the defendant and its servants failed to keep such watch during the night of June 30, 1913, as it is its and their…