Mauritz v. New York, L. E. & W. R. Co.

Dyer, J., (charging jury.)

This is a suit to recover from the defendant, the New York, Lake Brie & Western Railroad Company, the value of certain lost baggage shipped from New York in June, 1882, bver the defendant’s line of road and destined for Weyauwega, Wisconsin. Many of the facts relating to the shipment and transportation of the baggage in question are undisputed. It seems that the plaintiff and his family and one Schelongowsky were a party of seven emigrants from Germany, who, on their arrival in New York, desired to obtain transportation for themselves and their luggage to Weyauwega,…