Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — A SUPREME COURT RULING. [ARTICLE]

A SUPREME COURT RULING.

A decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court, Tuesday, in a case from Illinois, involving the right of a drummer to check his samples as personal baggage. In 1889 a traveling salesman left Springfield for Petersburg, 111., and checked his samples as personal baggage. The train was wrecked and the baggage car and baggage were burned. The employers of the salesman sued the company for the valne of the samples, and secured judgement for $7,287 for their loss. The case was appealed and the Supreme Court has reversed the decisions of the lower courts and bolds that the employers have no recourse on the company for value of samples lost.