Coffee v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Mississippi Supreme Court
Coffee v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 76 Miss. 569 (Miss. 1898)
Whitfield

Coffee v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court

Whitfield, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The case should have gone to the jury. A rule that baggage shall not be checked until a ticket has been procured is a reasonable regulation to prevent imposition upon the company. But a rule that a baggage master shall not receive into the baggage room baggage until a ticket shall have been procured, if there be such a rule, is an imposition upon the public, unreasonable and void. It would require intending passengers to care for their own baggage in many situations that may readily be imagined where to do so would be entirely impracticable. Every reasonable facility for travel should be afforded those who are intending passengers, and rules should be so framed as to be just in their provisions alike to the company and the traveling public. As to the authority of the baggage master, see Isaacson v. Railroad Co., 94 N. Y., 285, 286.

Reversed and remanded.

Reference

Full Case Name
Charles C. Coffee v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Cited By
2 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Railroads. Baggage. Rules. Procu/remmt of cheeks. A rule of a railroad company, that baggage shall not be checked until a ticket has been procured, is reasonable; but a rule that a baggage master shall not receive baggag-e into the baggage room until a ticket shall have been procured, is unreasonable and void.