Johnson v. Boston & Maine Railroad
Supreme Court of Vermont
General Assumpsit. ■ Heard upon the report of a referee, exceptions thereto by both parties and the defendant’s motion to recommit, at the December Term, 1896, Orange County, Start; J., presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Thompson, J.(1) The contract under which the defendant carried the United States mails during the time in question, required it, at “meeting points,'1'1 to transfer mails to be forwarded by connecting trains, to such trains. During that time, the mail route over the Concord & Montreal R. R., as established by the United States government, did not include the half mile of its track between Woodsville, N. H., and the union station at Wells River, Vt., at which point it connected with the road of the defendant, but all the regular mail trains of the Concord & Montreal R. R. run from Woodsville…
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