Hood v. New York & New Haven Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action, founded on a special contract of the defendants, to carry the plaintiff safely, by means of railroad cars and stages, from the town of New Haven to the village of Collinsville.
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This was an action, founded on a special contract of the defendants, to carry the plaintiff safely, by means of railroad cars and stages, from the town of New Haven to the village of Collinsville. The declaration, after stating the undertaking of the defendants, alleged, that on the 15th day of January, 1850, while the plaintiff vías a passenger, to be conveyed, by the defendants, upon the route from New Haven to Collinsville, it became and was the duty of the defendants to use proper care, in safely and securely conveying the plaintiff, by means of said cars and stages, from New Haven to…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
This is an action founded on a special contract to carry the plaintiff from New Haven to Collins-ville, by railroad and stage. The defendants are not sued as common carriers, (the best mode, when practicable,) but upon the particular contracts described in the plaintiff’s declaration.
Three questions are made, each of which has been argued with unusual learning and ability, and we are doubtless put in possession of all the important cases upon the subject, in the American or English reports. The jury, having returned a verdict for the plaintiff, under a pro forma ruling of the court, as to the…
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