Perry v. . R. R.

Civil action to recover damages for the loss of certain wearing apparel.

The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is liable as a carrier of baggage, and, if not, that the wearing apparel was lost by reason of the negligence of the defendant.

The defendant denies that the wearing apparel was ever delivered to it and also denies any liability to the plaintiff.

The plaintiff introduced evidence tending to prove that on 3 December, 1913, he bought a ticket of the Southern Railway Company and checked his suitcase from Goldsboro to Raleigh; that the wearing apparel was in the suitcase at the time it…