Bissel v. Price
Illinois Supreme Court
Price brought Ms action against Bissel & Co., to recover for advañces made by Mm on certain merchandise received of J. D. Harmon & Co., who were forwarding merchants at Peru, and for freight for transporting the same from Peru to Peoria. To this action the defendants interposed several pleas.
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Price brought Ms action against Bissel & Co., to recover for advañces made by Mm on certain merchandise received of J. D. Harmon & Co., who were forwarding merchants at Peru, and for freight for transporting the same from Peru to Peoria. To this action the defendants interposed several pleas. Non assumpsit, payment, and a plea alleging that Price was indebted to them (Bissel & Co.,) for neglecting, as common carriers, to deliver to them, in good order and condition, certain merchandise, consisting of seventeen packages, in good order and condition, which was delivered to him as a common…
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
This record presents several questions of commercial law of considerable interest, though of no great difficulty.
They are such as arise in and affect every case of the transportation of goods from one part of the country to another, which are forwarded over the different public conveyances, by land and water, acting as common carriers, which are spread all over the country, doing an incalculable amount of business, and which are, in a manner, connected together by warehousemen through whose hands the goods they carry pass from one carrier to another. These various institutions, if…
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