Merchants & Miners' Transportation Co. v. Story
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The nature of this case and the pleadings and facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. The nature of this case and the pleadings and facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception. — At the trial the plaintiff offered seven prayers, all of. which the Court, (Dobbin, J.) rejected, except the sixth, which was granted and is as follows: 6. That the .custom of the defendant to store goods of its employers upon said wharf, as testified to hy the defendant’s witness, is not sufficient to discharge the defendant from its liability to plaintiff for said damage, and must he excluded hy the jury in their…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The appellant, a Maryland corporation, engaged in carrying passengers and freight between Boston and Baltimore, was sued by the appellee, for damage to certain b&olrs which had been brought to the latter city in one of the company’s steamships. The declaration charges that the defendant agreed to carry said goods from Boston to Baltimore, and safely keep them in Baltimore until it delivered them to the plaintiff, but did not so safely keep the same, but carelessly and negligently permitted said goods while in its possession, to be greatly damaged and injured by water, when it might by…
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