Fergusson v. Brent
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Charles county. This was an action on the case brought by the appellee on the 3rd of May 1855, against the appellants, to recover damages for injury to certain goods which the plaintiff placed on board the defendants’ vessel, the schooner Isabel, to be transported from Baltimore to Port Tobacco, in Charles county.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Charles county. This was an action on the case brought by the appellee on the 3rd of May 1855, against the appellants, to recover damages for injury to certain goods which the plaintiff placed on board the defendants’ vessel, the schooner Isabel, to be transported from Baltimore to Port Tobacco, in Charles county. The declaration charges that the defendants were common earners, and undertook to transport and deliver the goods safely and securely. The defendants pleaded non assumpsit, upon which issue was joined. 1st Exception. The plaintiff proved that the…
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
This action was brought to recover damages for the injury which certain articles of property, belonging to the appellee, sustained, while on board the vessel of the appellants, on which they had been placed, for transportation from Baltimore *30city to Charles county, in this State. The appellants were common carriers, and, as such, received the goods of the appellee for transportation. The plaintiff proved the shipment, the amount of damage, and that on the day the vessel left the port of Baltimore, the weather, in the opinion of his witnesses, who testified to its character, was such that the…
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