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Show A 1MIK1SIIMI lll.UMON. All thecaaea wherelu there la lout of laggage do not go agaluat thu rail-Made rail-Made hy any mean, aa lu the can) of lliiiu linya tlal. va. ferry it ul,, re-lently re-lently decided by tho Hupremu court oftheUnlleil Blatei. It apeara that one of the appellee", a member if a firm of manufacturing Joweleia cf Chicago, travel d over the Wabaah, St. 1 .gull ,1 l'aoiflu railroad na nu ageul of the firm, oarrylug a trunk containing hla muit ltd, valued at about i JlOgOdJaiiloheokoia "perional baggage," bag-gage," neither thu opt tlm nor thu railroad agent ukluv any queitloni nor making atatementa regarding the content, which wn what wa commonly com-monly known aa a Joweler'a trunk. On tho way the train Jumpcdthotr ok and Ihe baggage car with Ita oonlenta were burned. The firm Lrouiht lull aud ricoverot a Judgment, whloh wai revcricJ by tho Buiremo court. Judge lllatohford, win renderel the Jndg-incut, Jndg-incut, a ild It was rcactiol ou the grounda that there was no e , Idence to ahow that the baggage agent hal any actual knowledge of thu content of the trunk; Hint Terry In uichatlui; a tick. t (or a aiiingir train, and then tendering hla trunk to thu agent to bo checked, tendend it ai containing hli iwrional luggBgi ,and that tho rootvera were not liable for the ccntentiot the truuk other than "ureonal baggage," |
