Glazer v. Old Dominion Steamship Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from City Court of New York, Trial Term. Action by Frank Glazer and another against the Old Dominion Steamship Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoee, J.
The plaintiffs sued to recover for the alleged loss of a case of clothing shipped by them on July 18, 1903, via the defendant’s steamship line; to J. L. Lapidus, at Denver, Colo.; the defendant’s undertaking, as expressed in the bill of lading, being to transfer the case “to said destination, if on its own line, or otherwise to deliver to another carrier, on the route to said destination.” Concededly the case never reached the consignee, and he was never advised of its arrival.
Denver was not on the defendant’s route; the latter’s southern terminus being at Norfolk, Newport News, and…
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