Jones v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Montana Supreme Court
217 P. 673 (1923)
- Written by Rich Walter, JD
Facts
Vernon R. Jones (plaintiff) checked two bags at a Great Northern Railway (defendant) station locker room. The station gave him a receipt, which in its fine print limited the railway’s liability to $10 per bag. Jones sued the railway after he unsuccessfully tried to retrieve the bags. Jones testified that he thought the receipt merely provided the means by which the bags could be identified for their retrieval, that he did not read the receipt’s fine print, and that railway employees neither called his attention to the limitation nor explained its meaning. The jury returned its verdict for Jones, and the trial court awarded him $520 in damages. Great Northern appealed to the state supreme court.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Holloway, J.)
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