Metz
Metz v. California Southern Railroad
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Sharpstein, J.
This appeal is from a judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff, and against defendant, for the sum of $357 and costs.
The only question presented by the record is, Do the findings support the judgment?
The court finds that at Kansas City, Missouri, in January, 1888, the plaintiff engaged passage on the defendant’s railroad to Colton, in this state, bought a ticket, paid his fare, and checked his trunk, containing, among other things, one lady’s gold watch and chain, of the value of one hundred and fifty dollars; one ady’s breast-pin and ear-rings, of the value of fifteen dollars; five lady’s gold rings, of the value of twenty-five dollars; one set lady’s small gold ear-rings, of the value of five dollars; two lady’s silver rings, of the value of two dollars; one lady’s gold bracelet, of the value of twenty-five dollars,— which the court found to be “proper articles of luggage and baggage for the plaintiff to carry as such.”
*330 Defendant had no knowledge of said contents when it received and checked said trunk, and assumed no other obligation in relation thereto than such as was imposed by law under the facts above stated; that is, there was no special contract between the…