Wood v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The questions presented by the record will sufficiently appear from the opinion. In England, when a carrier receives goods destined to a point beyond the end of its line, the implied contract is that the carrier will safely transport the goods to their destination, without regard to the number of changes that may be required to reach that point.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. The defendant appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The questions presented by the record will sufficiently appear from the opinion. In England, when a carrier receives goods destined to a point beyond the end of its line, the implied contract is that the carrier will safely transport the goods to their destination, without regard to the number of changes that may be required to reach that point. In this country the common law, as settled by the decisions of all the courts that have passed upon the subject, is this: that the…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
The plaintiff shipped from Boston and New York forty-one packages of merchandise consigned to himself at Winona, Minn. At Watertown, in this state, these packages were delivered to the defendant— thirty-five of them on the 12th day of May, 1870, and the remaining six packages on the day following — for transportation to La Crosse, which was the western terminus of defendant’s line of railway; and they were transported by the defendant to La Crosse — the thirty-five packages reaching there on the morningof May 13th, and the other six packages on the following morning.
It was the custom and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Blossom v. . GriffinNew York Court of Appeals · 1856
- Goold v. . ChapinNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- McDonald v. . Western Railroad CorporationNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Schneider v. EvansWisconsin Supreme Court · 1870
- Wood v. CrockerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1864
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Lemke v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
- Conkey v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
- Bennitt v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1891
- Parker v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1872
- Hansen v. Flint & Pere Marquette RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1889
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