Goldstein v. Pullman Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Louis Goldstein, from an order and determination of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 17th day of June, 1913, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court dismissing the complaint, entered in the office of the clerk of said court on the 26th day of March, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The plaintiff was a cloak and suit manufacturer who had been traveling in his business for eighteen years. On the 10th *757of January, 1913, he took passage on a train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company at Cincinnati, for Wheeling, W. Va. He purchased a Pullman berth for $2. He had a handbag containing his personal belongings which was too large to go under the berth when made up. It was agreed that the bag and its contents were of the reasonable value of $120, with the exception of a diamond scarf pin, the value of which was testified to as from $200 to $225. He…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Hasbrouck v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1911
- Pullman Co. v. SchaffnerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1906
- Lewis v. New York Sleeping Car Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Carpenter v. . N.Y., N.H. H.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Kates v. Pullman's Palace Car Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1895
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