Show RECOVERY FOR LOST I BAGGAGE QUESTION BEFORE COURT COURTW W Woman ornan Claims 2000 2000 Rail road Would Limit Amount f i to Dee Dec The Tho rIght or of the ordinary Interstate traveler to recover re- re Ico cover th the full Cull or of lost on the light ot of Mrs I Booker of oC Los Loa Angeles to have the tho suI su- su I l court co r tho Boston Maine I II I to hor for 2000 ot of oti j i finery lost ost In n. n ore fire at Sunapee Lake statton sta- sta on In New W In 1909 1908 t i The Tho railroad contends that It transported trans trans- I ported the baggage at a particular rate rato I Ion con condItion that the value dId not exceed exI ex- ex cee and that It would have char charged ed I th that t Mrs Irs a R. R hIgher rate rata had It known i Hooker Ho trunks contained more valuable It points to decisions I j i of the court that the Hepburn I rate law the tho basing of oC freight And express rates rate on value and argues 1 that the tho law Jaw sanctions the tho basInS basing of ba baggage gage charges on value alue Mrs Irs Hooker through he her a attorney i takes the po position that baggage I Is no not charged for In the sale of tickets for Cor transportation and hence the tho Hepburn rate law does docs not govern rIghts growing out wout ot of baggage but the law or of each e state Under Massachusetts law where here Mrs Hookers Hooker's journey began n. age was waN allowed to recover reco 2000 on the tho round ground that the limitation on her right to recover reco more mOle than was against public poll C |