N.Y. Railroad Law § 67: Penalties for injuries to baggage

§ 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.