McKee v. Owen
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action brought by plaintiff to recover of the proprietors of the steamboat “ City of Cleveland ” the value of certain personal property, alleged to have been stolen from her stateroom during a trip from Cleveland to Detroit. It appeared from the evidence that plaintiff took a cabin passage on defendants’ boat from Cleveland to Detroit, and paid her fare.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action brought by plaintiff to recover of the proprietors of the steamboat “ City of Cleveland ” the value of certain personal property, alleged to have been stolen from her stateroom during a trip from Cleveland to Detroit. It appeared from the evidence that plaintiff took a cabin passage on defendants’ boat from Cleveland to Detroit, and paid her fare. She was assigned to a stateroom about 8 o’clock in the evening; whereupon she went into it, left some of her apparel there, and came out and locked the door. Soon after, a lady passenger, unknown to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The defendants below (defendants in error), proprietors of the steamboat “ City of Cleveland,” were common carriers of goods and passengers between Detroit and Cleveland. On the evening of the 17th of April, 1865, the plaintiff took a cabin passage on this boat at Cleveland for Detroit, and paid her fare ($3.5.0), which included passage, breakfast and a stateroom and, of course, ordinary traveling baggage, if she had it. A stateroom (letter “H”) was assigned to her at the time of paying her fare, and was shown to her by the stewardess about 8 o’clock in the evening, when she…
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