Robinson v. New York & Texas Steamship Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles L. Robinson, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the: office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 12th day of December, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a$ trial at the New York Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The plaintiff, claiming as assignee of the Slater Woolen Company of Webster, Mass., brought this action against the defendant—a common carrier — averring that it so negligently and carelessly conducted itself in its business as carrier that certain wool belonging to the Slater Woolen Company was destroyed by fire and lost to that company.
It appears that the defendant, known as the Mallory Line, has for many years run a line of steamships between New York and Galveston, Tex., and during the summer of 1896 its steamers sailed from Galveston weekly. It had large freight sheds on the…
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