Birk v. City of Bremerton

This action is for the recovery of damages for the loss occasioned by fire of household goods which had been stored in a municipal wharf and warehouse belonging to appellant. Two causes of action were alleged: one for the loss of household goods alleged to be of the value of $1,062.50, delivered to appellant as a warehouseman; and the second, for the loss of a trunk valued at ten dollars, alleged to have been held by the city as a common carrier, by reason of having been delivered to it by a transportation company known as the Navy Yard Route, shortly before the fire, without .notice of its…