Cole v. Goodwin & Story
New York Supreme Court
This was an action on the case against the defendants as common carriers, tried at the Otsego circuit in April, 1834, before the Hon. Robert Monell, one of the circuit judges. The defendants were stage coach proprietors, on a line from Cherry Valley in Otsego county, to Manlius in Onondaga county, and from thence west.
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This was an action on the case against the defendants as common carriers, tried at the Otsego circuit in April, 1834, before the Hon. Robert Monell, one of the circuit judges. The defendants were stage coach proprietors, on a line from Cherry Valley in Otsego county, to Manlius in Onondaga county, and from thence west. The plaintiff took a seat in one of their coaches as a passenger from Cherry Valley to Madison, a town in the line of the route, and paid the usual fare for himself and his baggage, consisting of a trunk containing clothing, $20 in bankbills, and a few books. The name of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By Mr. Justice Bronson.
The opinion delivered by me jn t{je preceding case of Hollister v. Nowlen, renders it unnecessary to examine some of the questions made on the trial. That coach proprietors are answerable as common carriers for the baggage of passengers, and that they cannot limit their liability by a general notice brought home to the employer, are now settled questions, so far as this court is concerned.
The objection that both of the defendants are not responsible for the act, or default of the driver employed by one of them, is answered by the case of Bostwick v. Champion, 11…
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