Salomon Stern, Ltd v. Davis

LEARNED HAND, District Judge.

This action is to recover damages for the misdelivery by the defendant, as agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, of two parcels of goods shipped from Pennsylvania to New York and arriving at the New York wharves of the railroad on July 3, 1919. In accordance with the' custom of the carrier in such cases, arrival notices were sent to the consignee, who received the same, and on July 7th wrote two “letters of authority,” as they are called, directing the carrier to deliver the same to B. Disbrow, a truckman.

The practice of the carrier in making such deliveries…