Gurney v. Grand Trunk Railway Co. of Canada
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, New York county. Action by Frederick B. Gurney against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. Plaintiff appeals from an interlocutory judgment sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the CourtVan Brunt, P. J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant is a foreign corporation, and a carrier of passengers and their baggage for hire, between the places in the complaint mentioned, and that in April, 1889, the defendant received into a train of passengers, to be carried from Suspension Bridge to Detroit for hire, one Launcelot S. Gurney, with his baggage, to-wit, a trunk in. which, besides his wearing apparel, were contained samples of cutlery, the property of the plaintiff, to be used and exhibited by Launcelot S. Gurney in soliciting from purchasers orders for merchandise to be filled by plaintiff,…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Sloman v. . Great Western Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Alling v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
- Stimson v. Connecticut River RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Blumantle v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
3Cited by3 opinions
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- S. Nathan & Co. v. Red Cab, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1941
- Santoro v. Central New York Power Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1947