Stoddard v. Long Island Rail Road
The Superior Court of New York City
This was a motion on the part of the plaintiffs for a new trial upon a case settled, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special verdict or bill of exceptions.
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This was a motion on the part of the plaintiffs for a new trial upon a case settled, with liberty to either party to turn the same into a special verdict or bill of exceptions. The action, which was commenced before the code, was trespass upon the case against the defendants, as owners of the steamboat New Haven, to recover damages for the loss of four cases of silk goods, belonging to the plaintiffs; which in the month of January, 1846, were delivered on board the New Haven to be transported to Allyn’s Point, Norwich, and thence by railroad to Boston. It was tried before Mr. Justice…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Duer, J.
All the questions of law that properly arise in this case, were involved in that of the Merchants’ Bank of Boston v. The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company, (6 Howard, 344,) and were then determined by the *188supreme court of the United States. This determination, including the reasons by which it is sustained, commands our entire assent, and had it been otherwise, we should still have yielded to its authority. The decisions of our highest national tribunal, upon questions of general commercial law, we cannot but think, ought to be regarded throughout the Union, as…
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