Jacobs v. Tutt
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
Intervening Petition. On submission. This is an action by Ferdinand Jacobs, plaintiff, against Tutt & Humphreys, receivers of the Wabash Kail road, defendants, to recover the value of a trunk and contents, alleged to have been stolen wliilo in defendants’ hands.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The facts as found by the court, and upon w’hieh the decision in this case depends, are as follows: Plaintiff is a traveling dealer in jewelry, and makes a practice of carrying his entire stock in trade about the country in a trunk especially adapted for that purpose. On October 23, 1886, he took passage on board one of the defendants’ trains at Wakonda, Missouri, for Kansas City, at which latter place he arrived about 8:30 p. u. of the same day! While at the station at Wakenda, plaintiff proposed to sell the station agent a watch and chain, and with that view he opened his trunk in one of…
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