Hickox v. Naugatuck Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action on the case, against the defendants as common carriers, for the loss through their negligence of money and clothing contained in a trunk of the plaintiff; tried to the jury in the superior court, before McCurdy, I. A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff, and the defendants moved for a new trial for error in the charge of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
This declaration is framed against the defendants for negligence in carrying and conveying the plaintiff’s baggage, as incidental to his own transportation from Waterbury to Bridgeport. It contains no count adapted to a recovery for negligence as a depositary.
On the trial the plaintiff claimed to have proved that he took his trunk to the station at Waterbury at-11 A. M. and requested that it might be checked for tlie next train, which started at 8 P. M., for Bridgeport; that he was informed that it was not their custom to check baggage until about fifteen minutes before the time when the…
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