Merritt v. Earle

By the Court, Emott, J.

This is an action against a common carrier. The complaint alleges that the defendant, on the first day of September, 1856, being then a common carrier between New York and Albany, by means of the steamboat Knickerbocker running on the Hudson river, undertook and agreed to transport two horses of the plaintiff from Albany to New York, and received them on board of his vessel. That the defendant did not safely transport the horses to New York, but on the passage down the steamboat was sunk by the negligence of those in charge of her, and the horses were lost. The answer…