Camden & Amboy Railroad v. Forsyth, Bros. & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certificate from Nisi Prius: No. 320, to January Term 1865. This was an amicable action in case, entered May 13tb 1865, between Jacob Forsytb and others trading as Forsyth, Brothers & Co., plaintiffs, and The Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company.
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Certificate from Nisi Prius: No. 320, to January Term 1865. This was an amicable action in case, entered May 13tb 1865, between Jacob Forsytb and others trading as Forsyth, Brothers & Co., plaintiffs, and The Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company. The declaration in several counts charged the defendants, as common carriers, with negligence in not transporting safely 113 barrels of refined petroleum from Philadelphia to Red Hook, an oil depot about thirty miles below the city of New York. On the trial before Thompson, C. J., the plaintiffs gave in evidence the following…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, February 25th 1869, by
Sharswood, J.
The contract of the plaintiffs with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was to carry the barrels of oil received at Pittsburg to Philadelphia and there deliver them to Leech & Co., at the company’s freight station. If there was any undertaking implied from the fact that the ultimate destination of the goods appeared on the bill of lading to be Red Hook, and the freight was to be there received for the carriage over the whole route, it would be only an engagement to forward to that place. This is now the received…
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