Moran v. Portland Steam Packet Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Case, against common carriers, for the loss of a valise and its contents on board the steamboat St. Lawrence, owned and run by the defendants. The general issue was pleaded, with brief statement that there is no such corporation as the Portland Steam Packet Company, with the powers and duties as described in the plaintiff’s writ.
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Case, against common carriers, for the loss of a valise and its contents on board the steamboat St. Lawrence, owned and run by the defendants. The general issue was pleaded, with brief statement that there is no such corporation as the Portland Steam Packet Company, with the powers and duties as described in the plaintiff’s writ. The defendants also moved, that the writ be quashed, because it does not describe them as a corporation, or as a company liable ¡to sue and be sued. The case states, that the parties agreed as follows: — the defendants are common carriers of passengers and freight;…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
— The general issue having been pleaded and joined, and the facts having been agreed, the other matter presented by brief statement became unimportant.
Reynolds and Wall, owners and bailors of part of the goods contained in the valise, had, before they were allowed to testify, released all their interest in those goods to the plaintiff ; and they were competent witnesses for him.
The plaintiff, as bailee of that portion of the goods originally owned by Reynolds and Wall, was entitled to maintain the suit for them and for his own goods. He is now entitled to recover for the value of all the…
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