Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law for Business Men: Including Merchants, Farmers, Mechanics, Etc. and Book of Reference for the Legal Profession, Adapted to All the States of the Union: To Be Used as a Text-Book for Law Schools and Commercial College
Bryant and Stratton's Commercial Law for Business Men: Including Merchants, Farmers, Mechanics, Etc. and Book of Reference for the Legal Profession, Adapted to All the States of the Union: To Be Used as a Text-Book for Law Schools and Commercial College
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...as ready to carry for all persons indifferently. The same principle applies also to the proprietors of railroad cars. Nor is it limited to land carriage. The canal-boat, carrying for the public, for hire, comes under the same principle. So, also, is the steamboat, when employed in the transportation of goods ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...as ready to carry for all persons indifferently. The same principle applies also to the proprietors of railroad cars. Nor is it limited to land carriage. The canal-boat, carrying for the public, for hire, comes under the same principle. So, also, is the steamboat, when employed in the transportation of goods as well as persons for hire. But if employed solely in the transportation of passengers, it is otherwise. An interesting question has arisen in this country in regard HOW FAB COMMON CABBIER LIABLE. 265 to the liability of a steamboat while employed in the towing of a freight vessel, and it was held that it was not a common carrier. Eaton v. Rumney, 13 Wend. 387; Wells v. Steam Navigation Co., 2 Comst. 204. The point was for some time undecided whether merchant vessels employed in the transportation of goods beyond sea, were to be regarded as common carriers, until finally, after much consideration, it was held that they were, in Morse v. Slue, 1 Ventris, 190. The same doctrine is now understood to apply equally to vessels plying from port to port in carrying on the coasting trade, and also to bargemen and hoymen on a navigable river. 490. Questions have frequently arisen in this country in cases where there are successive companies of carriers over a continuous line of travel, and no partnership relation existing between them. The point of difficulty to decide has been whether the carrier who receives the goods is liable for their loss in the course of their transit by another company. A package of goods marked for Chicago is delivered in New York to the Hudson River Tow-boat Company, who deliver it in good order to the New York Central Railroad, and while being carried from Albany to Buffalo, it is lost. Are the Hudson River Tow-boat...
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