Bare v. American Forwarding Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on contract. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Oscar M. Tobbison, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
The learned judge of the Municipal Court held the defendant liable to the plaintiffs as a common carrier of said trunk and its contents, and the question whether such holding was proper under the facts and circumstances proven, is the only question presented for our decision.
The nature of the business carried on by the defendant, and of the legal duties and obligations which such business imposes on the defendant, is to be ascertained from a consideration of the kind of service it undertook to render to plaintiffs and the service which it holds itself out to the public as ready to render to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Buckland v. Adams Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by8 opinions
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Acme Fast Freight, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Kettenhofen v. Globe Transfer & Storage Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1912
- Heath v. Judson Freight Forwarding Co.California Court of Appeal · 1920
- Wald-Green Food Corp. v. Acme Fast Freight, Inc.City of New York Municipal Court · 1951
- Blair v. American Forwarding Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1911
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