Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. v. Fairclough

The appellee purchased a ticket entitling him to passage upon the railroad of appellants from Chicago to Moline, and checked his baggage to the same station.

On arriving at Geneseo, he procured a lay-over ticket, and stopped there from the 13th to the 15th of February.

The baggage was allowed to go on to Moline, arriving at 5.25 p. m. of the 13th, and no one being on hand to receive it, the baggage master of appellants placed it in the depot building, where baggage was ordinarily kept. He remained in the building until 11:45 p. m., then locked all the doors and fastened all the windows, and…