Railroad Co. v. Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
• In'error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being thus: In October, 1865, at- Jackson, a station on the Michigan Central Railroad, about seventy-five miles west of Detroit, one Bostwick delivered to the agent of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, for transportation, a quantity of wool consigned to the Mineral Springs Manufacturing Company, at Stafford, Connecticut, and took a receipt for its carriage, on the back of which was a notice that…
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• In'error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being thus: In October, 1865, at- Jackson, a station on the Michigan Central Railroad, about seventy-five miles west of Detroit, one Bostwick delivered to the agent of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, for transportation, a quantity of wool consigned to the Mineral Springs Manufacturing Company, at Stafford, Connecticut, and took a receipt for its carriage, on the back of which was a notice that all goods and merchandise are at the risk of the owners while in the warehouses of the company, unless the loss or injury…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
■ It is not necessary in the state of this record to. go into-the general subject of the duty of carriers in respect to goods in their custody which have arrived at their final destination. Different views have been entertained by different jurists of what the carrier is required to do when the transit is ended in order to terminate his liability, but thei’e is not'this difference of opinion in relation to the rule which is applicable while the property is in process of transportation from the place of its receipt to the place of its destination.
In such cases it is the duty of the carrier, in…
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- Myrick v. Michigan Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
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- United States v. Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company, Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company v. United States Fo AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
- Cutler Corp. v. LatshawSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953
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