Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Reiss
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OS' APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York by the plaintiffs, who are defendants in error here, and are residents of Liverpool, England, to recover the value of some two hundred bales of cotton destroyed by fire at Westwego, Louisiana, opposite the city of New Orleans, November 12, 1894, at a pier on the west bank of the Mississippi RiVer, owned by the…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OS' APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This action was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York by the plaintiffs, who are defendants in error here, and are residents of Liverpool, England, to recover the value of some two hundred bales of cotton destroyed by fire at Westwego, Louisiana, opposite the city of New Orleans, November 12, 1894, at a pier on the west bank of the Mississippi RiVer, owned by the plaintiff ip error. This is the same fire which is mentioned in Texas <& Pacific. Railway Company v. Clayton, 173 U. S.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice PecichaM
In this case there had been no delivery of the cotton by the railway company prior to its destruction by fire. The cotton had arrived at the pier of .the railway company but no notification of its arrival had been given to the steamship company, nor was it in fact in the possession of nor had it been delivered to the latter company. It was still under the absolute control and in the possession of the railway company, and nothing had been done to terminate its common law liability at the time the fire occurred.
In Myrich v. Michigan Central Railroad Company, 107 U. S. 102, Mr. Justice Field,…
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