Lynch v. Pennsylvania Railroad

This is an action of contract or tort for the loss of a suitcase on a train running between New York and Washington on which the plaintiff was a passenger.- The plaintiff boarded the train at Boston, and placed the suit*695case in a rack above her seat. A trainman, employed by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, directed her to move the suitcase to the vestibule at the|rear end of the car. Upon inquiry as to its safety there, the trainman assured the plaintiff’s mother in the plaintiff’s presence that it would be perfectly safe. The plaintiff took the suitcase to the vestibule…