Sperry v. Consolidated Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to récover damages for the loss, through negligence, of a traveling-bag alleged to have been delivered to the defendants for carriage, brought by the defendants’ appeal from a judgment of a justice of the peace to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; the trial court directed a verdict for the defendants, from the judgment on which the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The complaint alleges that on the 20th of October, 1904, the plaintiff Lillian M. Sperry, while a pas senger upon the defendants’ street-railway car, delivered to them, as common carriers, her satchel, which was her reasonable baggage, to be conveyed on said car; that the defendants accepted the same for said purpose, and took charge of it and placed it on such part of the car as suited their convenience; and that they so carelessly and negligently conducted in taking care of and conveying said baggage, that through their negligence and carelessness it was lost.
The trial court finds that the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Carpenter v. . N.Y., N.H. H.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Kinsley v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Henderson v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Whicher v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Voss v. Wagner Palace Car Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1896
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