Knox v. Rives, Battle & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. Before the Hon. J. Bragg. Case by the plaintiff in error, against the defendants, as common carriers. Upon the trial, the plaintiff proved that the defendants were the owners of the steamboat Montgomery, and that the boat was used for the purpose of transporting for hire, goods and merchandize.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Mobile. Before the Hon. J. Bragg. Case by the plaintiff in error, against the defendants, as common carriers. Upon the trial, the plaintiff proved that the defendants were the owners of the steamboat Montgomery, and that the boat was used for the purpose of transporting for hire, goods and merchandize. That it was notorious a large portion of the proceeds of the cottpn crop of the State, was sent into the interior in bank bills, inclosed in packages, known as cash sealed letters, conveyed by means of steam-' boats, engaged in the same trade as the Montgomery.…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The defendants are sued as common carriers, to recover the value of a sealed package, containing $2,500 in bank bills, received on board the steamboat Montgomery, by the clerk thereof, to be carried from the city of Mobile to the city of Montgomery, and to be delivered to the plaintiff. The package was lost.
1. The plaintiff having proved that the boat was engaged in carrying goods and merchandize generally for hire, and the general custom of boats engaged in similar business as the Montgomery, in carrying letters containing remittances of bank bills, we think it was permissible for the…
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