Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Berrie

RICE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Southeastern Greyhound Lines, a corporation, the defendant below, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County in favor of the plaintiff.

The complaint was in tort for damages, seeking recovery of the value of a purse and its contents.

There were two counts in the complaint, both of which set up the fact that defendant was a common carrier of passengers and plaintiff a passenger for hire.

Count 1 then charged that defendant “failed to use reasonable care to protect plaintiff’s baggage” and as a proximate consequence thereof the baggage was lost.…