Central Trust Co. of New York v. Wabash, St. L. & P. Ry. Co.

The intervenors, Perry Bros., are jobbers of jewelry and watches at Chicago. One of the firm, Arthur J. Perry, was at Springfield, 111., with a trunk containing a stock of jewelry and watches, and, desiring to go to Petersburgh in the same state, bought a ticket for passage over one of the lines of the Wabash Railway, then in possession of Humphreys and Tutt, as receivers. The station agent, wrho had served as such at the same place for more than 11 years, checked the trunk, which weighed 250 pounds, to Petersburgh as ordinary personal baggage, charging 25 cents for overweight, 150 pounds…