Wilkinson v. Pullman Co.

McCORMICK, District Judge.

This is an action at law, wherein jury was waived, to recover $4,100, being the value of jewelry lost by plaintiff Jessie Cook Wilkinson while she and her husband, the coplaintiff, were passengers and guests for hire in one of tho standard sleeping cars of defendant company on an overnight journey en route from San Buenaventura, Cal., to San Francisco, Cal., over the coast line of tho Southern Pacific Railway Company, and thence to Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Diversity of citizenship of tho parties and jurisdictional amount in controversy brings this case to this…