Calveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Woodbury
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL' APPEALS, EIGHTH SUPREME JUDICIAL DISTRICT, OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
On March 14, 1917, Mrs. Woodbury took the Galves-. ton, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway at San Antonio, Texas, for El Paso, Texas, and checked her trunk, which she took with her. It was lost and she sued the company in a state district court for the value of trunk and contents, which the jury found to be $500. Mrs. Woodbury was traveling on a coupon ticket purchased at Timmins, Ontario, from a Canadian railroad, entitling her to travel over it and connecting lines, from Timmins to El Paso and return, apparently with stop-over privileges.…
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