Kindley v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.

In this case the plaintiff sought to recover the value of a diamond, which she alleged had been cut from its setting in one of her rings. The general allegation was that on 18 December, 1905, she purchased a through ticket from the city of Eayetteville to the city of Charlotte, which was issued by the defendant, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, via Max-ton, to the place of her destination, in Charlotte. The ring, we will assume, for the purpose of deciding the question presented, and as the evidence tends to show, was in her trunk at the time the latter was delivered to the drayman…