Hannibal Railroad v. Swift
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri. Swift, a surgeon in the army of the United States, brought a suit in the court below against the Hannibal and St. Jo seph Railroad Company, to recover the value of certain baggage and personal property, owned by him, and lost when in a course of transportation on the said road.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri. Swift, a surgeon in the army of the United States, brought a suit in the court below against the Hannibal and St. Jo seph Railroad Company, to recover the value of certain baggage and personal property, owned by him, and lost when in a course of transportation on the said road. The case, which was agreed on by the parties, and tried by the court without a jury, was thus : The plaintiff’had been stationed as a surgeon in the army, with his wife and family, previous to the rebellion, at Port Randall, Dacotali Territory. A part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
Two questions are presented by the record for' our determination : 1st, whether upon the facts stated irt the agreed case the railroad company was liable as a common carrier for the safe conveyance of the baggage and other property of the plaintiff; and, 2d, whether there was any error in the assessment of damages as allowed by the Circuit Court.
The railroad company whs chartered by the legislature of Missouri in 1847, and for many years its railroad between the city of Hannibal, on the Mississippi River, and the city of Saint Joseph, on the Missouri River, has been constructed and in…
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