Randall v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for the loss of certain jewelry and personal effects on the night of June 10, 1912, when the plaintiff was a passenger on a sleeping car owned and operated by the defendant. Writ dated July 11, 1912. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Chase, J.. The evidence is described in the opinion.
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Tort for the loss of certain jewelry and personal effects on the night of June 10, 1912, when the plaintiff was a passenger on a sleeping car owned and operated by the defendant. Writ dated July 11, 1912. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Chase, J.. The evidence is described in the opinion. The declaration contained three counts, but it was stated in the report to this court that “At the close of the evidence the plaintiff waived the first and second counts of her declaration and the following special questions were submitted to the jury under the third count.” The third count…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
On a warm night in summer the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s midnight train from New York to Boston, occupying a lower berth. She boarded the train at about ten o’clock and immediately went to bed. When she went to bed she took off six rings and put them with some other articles of value and a letter of instructions from her husband in a travelling bag and put the travelling bag under her pillow. ' This bag was made of silk, and was about eight inches long, five inches “across the bottom” and about twelve inches high'. It was “a very soft bag that could be closed up.” She went…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Lewis v. New York Sleeping Car Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Kinsley v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Whicher v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Whitney v. Pullman's Palace Car Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Dawley v. Wagner Palace Car Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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- Boston & Maine Railroad v. T. Stuart & Son Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Clark v. Checker Taxi Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953