Bryan v. Memphis & Paducah Railroad
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 58 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL PROM McCRACKEN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 2 Bush, 468, Jeff. R. R. Co. v. Cleveland. 2 Duvall, 7, C. H. & D. R. R. Co. v. Sprat't. CITED 2 Rédfield on Railways, 112, 118, 114, 115, and cases cited.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion of the court.
The rule established for the transportation and delivery of goods or other freight by carrier is, “that the carrier, unless *598bound by special contract, is required to transport or deliver the freight at the terminus of his line or at the place where, by the established usage of the business in which he is engaged, the delivery is to be made, to be transported on other lines, or by a different carrier.”
In the present case the appellee insists that it only undertook to cai’ry the goods to the terminus of its road at Troy .Station, and there deliver…
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