Blackmer & Post Pipe Co. v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. O’Neill Ryan, Judge. (1) The act of 1905 (Laws 1905, p. 53) gave no new right of action. The shipper could always have sued either the connecting carrier if negligent, or the initial carrier. Each was liable even when the latter had not itself been negligent. Meyer v. Railroad, 120 Mo.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. O’Neill Ryan, Judge. (1) The act of 1905 (Laws 1905, p. 53) gave no new right of action. The shipper could always have sued either the connecting carrier if negligent, or the initial carrier. Each was liable even when the latter had not itself been negligent. Meyer v. Railroad, 120 Mo. App. 294; Halliday v. Railroad, 74 M'o. 159. Perhaps under sections 545 and 767, Revised Statutes 1899, they could before 1905, have been joined as defendants, when the negligent act complained of was done by the connecting carrier. But the act of 1905, not only…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
(after stating the facts). — 1. (a) Several grounds of liability are indicated in the petition and in the instructions requested by plaintiff. One is a joint contractual liability of the four railway companies. These companies are stated to have owned connecting lines of railway which, taken together, extended from plaintiff’s factory in St. Louis to New Orleans; and in the first refused instruction (R-l) plaintiff asked the court to advise the jury on the hypothesis of a joint undertaking by the four, defendants to transport the property from the place of shipment to destination. (b) Though…
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