Siegrist v. Arnot
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) “The liabilities of a common carrier do not apply to those who let horses and carriages for hire.” Cooley on Torts, 638. (2) “A common carrier is one who regularly undertakes, for hire, to carry goods and passengers between different places, for such as may offer.”
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. (1) “The liabilities of a common carrier do not apply to those who let horses and carriages for hire.” Cooley on Torts, 638. (2) “A common carrier is one who regularly undertakes, for hire, to carry goods and passengers between different places, for such as may offer.” Cooley on Torts, 638. (3) The defendant’s contract to loan his carriages was a gratuitous bailment, and subject only to such liability as the law prescribes for that kind of a contract. A gratuitous bailor is held only for gross negligence, which is the omission of care, which even the…
1Opinion of the CourtHenry, C. J.
— This is an action by plaintiff for damages for an injury to Mrs. Siegrist, which she sustained by being thrown from a carriage of' defendant, in the city of St. Louis. Defendant had a judgment in the circuit court, which was reversed by the court of appeals, and it is now here on appeal from the latter judgment.
Defendant was a livery stable keeper, and gratuitously furnished four of his carriages, and a driver for each, to carry to and from Mercantile Library Hall some young ladies and gentlemen who were to take part in a performance there for the benefit of orphans. It was *203distinctly…
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