Voorhis v. Consolidated Rail Corp.

In this breach of bailment action to recover the value of the contents of a suitcase which had been lost at Grand Central Station, plaintiff appeals from a verdict in favor of the defendant, Conrail. The essential facts are not in dispute. While plaintiff, 80 years of age and lame, was purchasing a ticket her niece took the suitcase, which plaintiff alleges contained, among other things, valuable jewelry, to the entrance of track 28, where she met Raphael Pereira, a uniformed Conrail usher. According to plaintiff’s evidence the niece asked Pereira if he would watch the suitcase while she…