Sutton v. Payne

Shepherd, District Judge.

Plaintiff’s action was to recover the value of mechanic’s tools checked as baggage and lost while in possession of the defendant. There was no question as to the facts. The director general admitted receiving the tools, which were in a hand-satchel or kit, at Schleswig, Iowa, and issuing a baggage check for the same, also that the said tools were lost in transit. The case was tried in the municipal court at Omaha. Judgment was for the' plaintiff, appellee, in the sum of $100. The district court refused to review this judgment, and the case is brought here by the…