Brown v. Camden & Atlantic Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1875, No. 148. This was an action on the case by Alexander Brown against the Camden & Atlantic Railroad Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of New Jersey, to recover from it as a common carrier the value of his trunk and its contents, alleged to have been lost by the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1875, No. 148. This was an action on the case by Alexander Brown against the Camden & Atlantic Railroad Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of New Jersey, to recover from it as a common carrier the value of his trunk and its contents, alleged to have been lost by the defendant. These facts appeared at the trial: On August 9th 1873, the plaintiff purchased from the defendant, at its office in Philadelphia, a ticket to Atlantic City; at the same time and place the company received his trunk and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sharswood
It will not be necessary to decide whether the Act of Assembly of April 11th 1867, Pamph. L. 69, is or is not constitutional, nor whether that act has any application to foreign railroad corporations *318making contracts for the carriage of passengers and their baggage in this state. The charter of' the defendants, which was in evidence in the court below, showed that they derived their existence and privileges from the state of New Jersey, and the contract was made at their wharf in Philadelphia to carry the plaintiff and his baggage to Atlantic City, over a road lying entirely in the state of…
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