Berger v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Assumpsit. Heard on demurrer of plaintiff to defendant’s plea to jurisdiction, and demurrer overruled.
1Per curiam
This is an action originally brought in the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District by Jacob Berger, a resident of Providence, State of Rhode Island, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a foreign corporation having its principal office in Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, for failing to deliver, in the discharge of its obligations as common carrier, twelve bales of feathers to the plaintiff in Newark, New Jersey. The declaration alleges that on December 12, 1904, the plaintiff delivered to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, a corporation doing business…
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