Ocean Steamship Co. v. Savannah Locomotive Works & Supply Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. January 28, 1908. The Ocean Steamship Company is a common carrier operating three vessels between the ports of Savannah, Georgia, and Boston,Massachusetts, and six vessels between the ports of Savannah and New York. The Savannah Locomotive Works and Supply Company is a corporation engaged in buying and selling lumber to persons living in Boston and other eastern points.
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Injunction. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. January 28, 1908. The Ocean Steamship Company is a common carrier operating three vessels between the ports of Savannah, Georgia, and Boston,Massachusetts, and six vessels between the ports of Savannah and New York. The Savannah Locomotive Works and Supply Company is a corporation engaged in buying and selling lumber to persons living in Boston and other eastern points. In September and October, 1907, there occurred at the port of Savannah a congestión, of cotton and lumber shipments, destined from Savannah to Boston. The plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. It was admitted in. the answer of the defendant that it was a common carrier by sea, operating a certain number of vessels between the port of Savannah, Georgia, and the ports of Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, and accustomed to carry the particular commodity offered it by the plaintiff, and against which it is alleged to have discriminated. From the earliest times it has been considered that a common carrier exercises a public employment, with public duties to perform. He can not, like a merchant, receive or reject a customer at pleasure. He…
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