Rice v. Hart
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against William T. Hart and others, trustees under a mortgage executed by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, and in possession of and operating the said railroad, to recover the value of forty-three bags of wool, valued at $4692.37, delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendants as common carriers, to be transported from New York to Boston.
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Contract against William T. Hart and others, trustees under a mortgage executed by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company, and in possession of and operating the said railroad, to recover the value of forty-three bags of wool, valued at $4692.37, delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendants as common carriers, to be transported from New York to Boston. The case was submitted to the judgment of this court on agreed facts in substance as follows: The defendants are common carriers, and as such received from the plaintiffs, for transportation over their railroad, the wool in question.…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This case is not distinguishable from that of Norway Plains Co. v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 1 Gray, 263.
In that case, so far as one lot of goods was concerned, as in this, the agent of the consignee was at the station after the ar *207rival of the goods, prepared to receive them; but the defendants were not, and, if he had remained, would not have been, ready to deliver them in time to be put in a place of safety elsewhere on that day, and they were destroyed in the station by fire the ensuing night; and Chief Justice Shaw, in delivering the opinion, said that the court considered all the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Miller v. MansfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- McDonald v. . Western Railroad CorporationNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Whitney v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Graves v. Hartford & New York Steamboat Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
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- Faulkner v. . HartNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- P. Garvan, Inc. v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Bachant v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. American Grocery Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1931
- Barker v. BrownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
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