Ringgold v. Haven & Livingston
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the court of First Instance of the district of San Francisco. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
BeNNett, J.
Appeal from judgment of the court of First Instance for the district of San Francisco. The action was brought against the defendants as common carriers for not safely transporting certain goods of the plaintiff from the port of New York to the port of San Francisco. The complaint was in the ordinary form of a common law declaration in case against a common carrier, and the plea was the general issue. At the trial the plaintiff himself was sworn as a witness by the consent of the defendants, and testified that sometime in the year 1849 he consulted ITaven, one of the…
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