Court Opinion

ID: 8070551
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 11:24:11.322213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:14.643765
License: Public Domain

MacLEAN, J. (concurring in the result).
Disembarking at the Joy Line Pier, in New York, on the 3d of September, 1903, the plaintiff went to the man who was, taking the baggage, as everybody else was going to him, gave up the check for her luggage, paid 25 cents, and asked that her trunk be transferred across the city to the Mallory Dock by 3 o’clock on that day. After examining the contents of the trunk and putting some other things into it, she left it with him, and was given a paper in the form of a nonnegotiable receipt of the defendant company, a common carrier for hire, signed “J. Montgomery.” Upon the nondelivery of the trunk as appointed, the plaintiff informed the defendant’s office, and otherwise proceeded diligently, but never got back her baggage, and so brought this action, recovering judgment for the full amount within the jurisdiction of the court, having given evidence sufficient to show, if credited, as evidently it was, that the trunk came into the possession of the defendant, and that its contents were worth more than the amount recovered. The receipt was introduced in evidence, but, as it was repudiated by the defendant, and the learned justice ruled that Montgomery was not connected with the company defendant, the judgment does not rest upon that, and the defendant may not claim the benefit of the clause therein restricting the amount of the liability. The judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff must be affirmed, with costs.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.