White v. Bascom
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on the case. The declaration alleged that the defendants were engaged in the business of towing boats on Lake Champlain; and the plaintiffs in running canal boats to and from Vergennes and Troy, for the purpose of forwarding, transporting, and freighting goods, &c.; and that by a contract between them, the defendants became obligated, carefully, skillfully and prudently, to tow the plaintiffs’ boats, with their contents, on Lake Champlain, between Whitehall and Fort…
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Action on the case. The declaration alleged that the defendants were engaged in the business of towing boats on Lake Champlain; and the plaintiffs in running canal boats to and from Vergennes and Troy, for the purpose of forwarding, transporting, and freighting goods, &c.; and that by a contract between them, the defendants became obligated, carefully, skillfully and prudently, to tow the plaintiffs’ boats, with their contents, on Lake Champlain, between Whitehall and Fort Cassin, (points between Troy and Vergennes;) that, in November, 1853, the defendants received to be so towed a boat of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, at the circuit session in June, by
Redeield, Ch. J.
The important question, and, in one view, the only question in the present case, is, whether a bailment, coupled with an interest, is a sufficient title to enable the bailee to recover the value of the goods of one to whom he entrusts them for the purpose of transportation, the bailee in the second instance not being a common carrier, but only a special one, and liable for ordinary neglect.
The general principle of the law in regal'd to this point seems to us sufficiently settled. Ordinarily, any one…
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