Brown Shoe Co. v. Hardin

POEFENBARGBR, JUDGE :

The judgment for plaintiff, here complained of, is based upon a finding by the trial court acting ill lieu of a jury, by consent, of the parties, upon a statement of facts agreed to.

The right of the controversy depends largely upon the law of bailment. The action was brought to recover the value of two traveling trays or telescopes and their contents, which were lost after having been placed in the care and custody of the defendant’s agent, by an agent of the plaintiff, for carriage, as baggage, from some point in the City of Charleston to the station of the Chesapeake…