Beckman v. Shouse
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton < which the cause was removed to this court by writ < was an action of assumpsit instituted by the plaint against the defendants, as common carriers, for not del cel of the value of fifty-five dollars and eight cents, wh dants, for hire paid, undertook to carry from Easton, ] to the city of New York.
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In the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton < which the cause was removed to this court by writ < was an action of assumpsit instituted by the plaint against the defendants, as common carriers, for not del cel of the value of fifty-five dollars and eight cents, wh dants, for hire paid, undertook to carry from Easton, ] to the city of New York. Upon the trial of the cause, the facts were these, dants were proprietors of a line of coaches running be and Elizabethtown, N. J., from whence, by means of 1 was continued to the city of New York. They prop* passengers and their baggage to and from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
This is an action of assumpsit, against the defendants as common carriers, for the loss of a parcel, containing one piece of silk, and two piepes of chintz, which the defendants, proprietors of the New YorlCline of coaches, received in Easton, and undertook, but failed to deliver, at New York. The plaintiffs proved the delivery of the pareel to the defendants, and an undertaking, on their part for a certain stipulated sum, to deliver it at New York. The defendants contend, that they were not common carriers, and if they were, their…
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