Hill Steamboat Line v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
City of New York Municipal Court
Action by the Hill Steamboat Line as the initial carrier against the defendants, as connecting carriers, for the sum of $587.81 paid by the initial carrier to the consignee of goods undelivered to such consignee.
1Opinion of the CourtRansom, J.
The verdict directed upon the trial in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant Panama Railroad Company may stand. The action involves practices, the course of dealing, and modes of expediting business, employed by freight carriers inter se; and *119the issue, while adjudicated in no decision disclosed by the considerable research of counsel, is not lacking in importance as well as difficulty, in view of the actual conditions under which great volumes of freight, billed over so-called “ through routes ” on “ through ” bills of lading, are handled in transit by the successive carriers. No…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Friedlander v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Forbes v. Boston and Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Fairfax v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Raleigh & Gaston Railroad v. LoweSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897
- Berkowitz v. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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- Burd v. San Antonio Southern Ry. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1924