Fairfield v. Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

The plaintiff herein seeks to recover damages from the defendant for a breach of its contract as a common carrier to transport certain merchandise from San Francisco to Nome and there deliver it to him.' At the close of the plaintiff’s case the court granted a nonsuit on the motion of the defendant, and from the judgment thereon the plaintiff has appealed.

The contract upon which the' plaintiff relies for his recovery is the bill of lading issued by the defendant, in which it acknowledges that it has received “to be forwarded per steamer ‘Pueblo’ thé articles or property enumerated hereon, to…