Manhattan Oil Co. v. Camden & Amboy Railroad & Transportation Co.
New York Supreme Court
OH the 27th June, 1864, at Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, James B. Grant, the plaintiffs’ agent, delivered to the Union Transportation and Insurance Company, a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania, engaged in the business of transporting freight as carriers for hire, forty barrels, containing sixteen hundred gallons of lard oil, the property of the plaintiffs, for transportation to Hew York, and received and accepted from said company a bill of lading therefor, which…
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OH the 27th June, 1864, at Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio, James B. Grant, the plaintiffs’ agent, delivered to the Union Transportation and Insurance Company, a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania, engaged in the business of transporting freight as carriers for hire, forty barrels, containing sixteen hundred gallons of lard oil, the property of the plaintiffs, for transportation to Hew York, and received and accepted from said company a bill of lading therefor, which he forwarded, with an invoice of said merchandise, to the plaintiffs, at Hew York, who received the same in due course.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mullin, J.
The oil which is .the subject matter of this action was delivered to the Union Transportation and Insurance Company at Cincinnati under a contract between it and the plaintiffs’ agent to receive said oil and carry the same to the city of Hew York, for certain hire and reward in such contract specified. It was provided, in and by said contract that the said Union Transportation and Insurance Company should not be liable for damage or loss by fire or other casualty while said property was in depots or places of transhipment.
The said oil was carried on the cars of said…
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