Halliday v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Moberly Court of Common Pleas. — Hón. GL H. Burckhartt, Judge. It would have been a misjoinder to have made either the M., K. & T. R’y Co., or its receiver, a party to this action. Hoagland v. R. R. Co., 39 Mo. 451. The receiver was only liable over his own line of road.
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Appeal from Moberly Court of Common Pleas. — Hón. GL H. Burckhartt, Judge. It would have been a misjoinder to have made either the M., K. & T. R’y Co., or its receiver, a party to this action. Hoagland v. R. R. Co., 39 Mo. 451. The receiver was only liable over his own line of road. Coates v. Express Co., 45 Mo. 238. The defendant was liable both generally as a common carrier and under the terms of the special contract made with the first carrier. 39 Mo. 451; 45 Mo. 238; Cramer v. Express Co., 56 Mo. 524; Snider v. Express Co., 63 Mo, 377; Rice v. K. P. R. R. Go., 63 Mo. 314. There was no…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, J.
It is alleged in substance in the petition in this ease, that on the 30th day of December, 1875, the plaintiffs delivered to Wm. Bond, receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, at Madison station, in the county of Monroe, eighteen horses and mules, loaded in a freight car belonging to the defendant, which said receiver, for a certain sum paid to him by plaintiffs, contracted in writing to transport to the city of St. Louis; that by the terms of said agreement, said receiver had the right to transport said ear of horses and mules over any other connecting railroad to the city…
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- Clark v. St. Louis, Kansas City, & Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1877
- Oxley v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1877
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