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SECTION 67
Penalties for injuries to baggage
Railroad (RRD) CHAPTER 49, ARTICLE 3
§ 67. Penalties for injuries to baggage. Any person whose duty it is
for or on behalf of the common carrier to handle, remove, or care for
the baggage of passengers, who shall recklessly or wilfully injure or
destroy any trunk, valise, box, bag, package or parcel, while loading,
unloading, transporting, delivering or storing the same, or any railroad
corporation, which shall knowingly keep in its employment any such
wilful or reckless person, or which shall permit any injury or
destruction of such property, through failure to provide sufficient help
and facilities for the handling thereof, shall pay to the party injured
thereby the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to such damages.