Blum v. Southern Pullman Palace Car Co.

Charge of the court delivered by

BROWN, District Judge:

Gentlemen of the jury: This is an action to recover of the defendant the sum of $3,135, lost by the plaintiff while riding upon a sleeping car owned and controlled by the defendant.

The plaintiff left Cairo, in the state of Illinois, about five o’clock in the evening of March 28, 1873, taking the boat down the river to Columbus, Kentucky. On the boat, he purchased a through ticket by rail from Columbus to Memphis, and, shortly after midnight, entered the sleeping car of the defendant at Humboldt, Tennessee, in which he was assigned a lower…