Ford v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

.Hill, C. J.

Lizzie Ford brought suit against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, to recover damages for delay in delivering to her a trunk containing the wearing apparel of herself and of two infant children. She alleged that she was a passenger on the line of the defendant company, and had checked her trunk to the point of her destination, and that a reasonable time for the delivery to her of her trunk would have been one day, but it was unreasonably delayed for eleven days. Her petition as amended alleged that the trunk contained all the wearing apparel of herself and of two minor…