Browning v. Goodrich Transportation Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. ■ This action is to recover the value of a bpx of clothing. It was proved on the trial that the plaintiffs delivered the box to the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company, at New York, consigned to themselves at Milwaukee, to be shipped by that company to Chicago, and there delivered to a connecting carrier for transportation to its destination.; and that the box was delivered by the express company, at Chicago, to the defendant,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. ■ This action is to recover the value of a bpx of clothing. It was proved on the trial that the plaintiffs delivered the box to the Baltimore & Ohio Express Company, at New York, consigned to themselves at Milwaukee, to be shipped by that company to Chicago, and there delivered to a connecting carrier for transportation to its destination.; and that the box was delivered by the express company, at Chicago, to the defendant, the Goodrich Transportation Company (a common carrier for hire between these points), for that purpose. The…
1Opinion of the CourtLyoN, J.
The pleadings, the undisputed evidence, and the special verdict establish the facts that the transportation company received the box of clothing in controversy at Chicago for shipment to Milwaukee, and failed to deliver the same to the plaintiffs, who were the owners and consignees thereof; also that the value of the contents thereof was $231. On these facts, were there no special contract restricting the liability of the transportation company for the loss of the box, there can be no doubt of the right of the plaintiff to recover such stipulated value. But counsel for the transportation…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Black v. Goodrich Transportation Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
3Cited by4 opinions
- Schaller v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
- Barrataria Land Co. v. Louisiana Meadows Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1920
- Decker v. Missouri PacifiC Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1910
- Milwaukee Mirror & Art Glass Works v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1912