Lloyd v. Haugh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 77 and 78, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1905, Nos. 642 and 643, on verdicts for plaintiffs in cases of William F. Lloyd v. Haugh & Keenan Storage & Transfer Company and Maude P. Lloyd v. Haugh & Keenan Storage & Transfer Company. Trespass to recover damages for the loss of household effects.
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Appeals, Nos. 77 and 78, Oct. T., 1908, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Aug. T., 1905, Nos. 642 and 643, on verdicts for plaintiffs in cases of William F. Lloyd v. Haugh & Keenan Storage & Transfer Company and Maude P. Lloyd v. Haugh & Keenan Storage & Transfer Company. Trespass to recover damages for the loss of household effects. Before Kennedy, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the plaintiffs delivered to the defendant household goods and personal effects to be hauled from Pittsburg to Sewickley. At a point about halfway between these places one of the wagons…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
We shall not attempt to discuss separately each of the twenty-one assignments of error in these appeals. The learned counsel agree that together they raise but five questions; these we shall consider in the order they have been presented.
1. Was the defendant a common carrier? The learned trial judge held as matter of law that it was. Briefly these were the facts, undisputed. The defendant, an incorporated company, though chartered to do a general warehouse and storage business, does not confine itself strictly to the particular business for which it was…
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