Cox v. Central Vermont Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Twelve ACTIONS, the declaration in each of which contained four counts, two in contract and two in tort, the first three being against the defendant as a common carrier, and the fourth, upon which the cases were tried, being against the defendant as a warehouseman for the loss by fire of a quantity of grain while in the defendant’s elevator at Ogdensburg, New York.
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Twelve ACTIONS, the declaration in each of which contained four counts, two in contract and two in tort, the first three being against the defendant as a common carrier, and the fourth, upon which the cases were tried, being against the defendant as a warehouseman for the loss by fire of a quantity of grain while in the defendant’s elevator at Ogdensburg, New York. At the trial of the cases together in the Superior Court, before Hopkins, J., the jury returned verdicts for the plaintiffs in the first, eleven cases; and the defendant alleged exceptions. In the twelfth case, the judge directed…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
These twelve actions were all tried together, and all relate to certain grain which was being transported from Chicago to various points in New England, and which was destroyed by fire while in the defendant’s elevator at Ogdensburg, on September 9, 1890. The declarations are the same in all of the cases. Counts in contract were joined with counts in tort, the last count, which was the one relied on, being in tort, and charging the defendant with negligence as a warehouseman.
*132In all of the cases except the last, verdicts were rendered for the plaintiffs. In the last, a verdict was ordered by…
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