Clyde v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1878, No. 130. This was an appeal by William P. Clyde & Co., from a judgment of a magistrate in favor of Hubbard Brothers. In the court below the following case was stated for the opinion of the court.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1878, No. 130. This was an appeal by William P. Clyde & Co., from a judgment of a magistrate in favor of Hubbard Brothers. In the court below the following case was stated for the opinion of the court. The plaintiffs, Hubbard Bros., on October 30th 1875, delivered to the defendants, W. P. Clyde & Co., general managers of the Philadelphia and Charleston Steamship Company, a corporation which runs a line of steamers between the ports of Philadelpbia and Charleston, South Carolina, at their wharf in Philadelphia, one…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodward
Whether the carriers of the books consigned to the plaintiffs below undertook to deliver them at the point to which they wrere finally destined, or became responsible only for their safe conveyance to the termination of the steamship company’s line, must be determined by the facts set out in the case stated and by the terms of the bill of lading. One of the facts agreed upon was that Messrs. Clyde & Co. were the general managers of the Philadelphia & Charleston Steamship Company. In the bill of lading the name of such a corporation did not occur, and no contract on its behalf was specifically…
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