Hines v. Burnett
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court, Part II, of the city of Richmond, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
For convenience the litigants will be referred to in the positions occupied by them in the trial court. The plaintiff brought assumpsit against the defendant to recover damages for the loss of a trunk and its contents, and the jury assessed her damages at $400, which the defendant insists should be reduced to $100.
On the morning of November 23, 1918, the plaintiff purchased a ticket from Petersburg, Va., to Richmond, Va., over the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, then operated by Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads of the United States. She checked her trunk on this ticket and took…
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