Erie Railroad v. Steinberg
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Appeals of Mahoning county. On the 20th day of October, 1913, the plaintiff below, Rose Steinberg, filed her petition in the common pleas court of Mahoning county, Ohio, against The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Erie Railroad Company.
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Error to the Court of Appeals of Mahoning county. On the 20th day of October, 1913, the plaintiff below, Rose Steinberg, filed her petition in the common pleas court of Mahoning county, Ohio, against The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Erie Railroad Company. In her amended petition, she averred that on the 11th day of September, 1913, she took passage at Toledo, Ohio, on The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway for Youngstown, Ohio, and travelled over said railway to Cleveland, and was there transferred to a train of the Erie Railroad Company for Youngstown; that at…
1Opinion of the CourtDonahue, J.
The pleadings and the facts distinguish this case from the case of the Boston & Maine Railroad v. Hooker, 233 U. S., 97.
In that case, Mr. Justice Day, in his opinion, said, at page 109:
“It is to be borne in mind that the action as tried and decided in the state court was not for negligence of the railroad company as a warehouseman for the loss of the baggage after its delivery at Sunapee Lake station, but was solely upon the contract of carriage in interstate commerce.”
The amended petition in the case under consideration avers that —
“Upon arriving in Youngstown, plaintiff presented her check…
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