Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Warren
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to district court. Action by Warren against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company for damages for the loss of baggage. Erom a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lacey, O. J.
This action was brought by the defendant in.error to recover the value of a certain trunk and its contents, alleged to be his property. The petition avers that the plaintiff in error is a common carrier, and as such, on October 6, 1881, received the wife of the defendant in error as a passenger into its cars, with the trunk, as her baggage, containing necessary wearing apparel of herself and infant child, to be carried from Chicago, Illinois, to Boston, Massachusetts, but that through negligence the plaintiff in error had suffered said baggage to become lost, and on demand had…
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