Watts v. Boston & Lowell Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the Boston & Lowell and Nashua & Lowell Railroad Corporations, as common carriers, to recover the value of 900 corn-planters, delivered to them by the plaintiff at Amherst in New Hampshire for transportation to Boston, and destroyed by fire in their freight depot at Amherst before the transportation was begun.
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Contract against the Boston & Lowell and Nashua & Lowell Railroad Corporations, as common carriers, to recover the value of 900 corn-planters, delivered to them by the plaintiff at Amherst in New Hampshire for transportation to Boston, and destroyed by fire in their freight depot at Amherst before the transportation was begun. Trial in the superior court, before Reed, J., who allowed the following bill of exceptions: “ The defendants contended, and there was evidence tending to show, that the corn-planters were part of a lot of 1000, which the plaintiff was in the act of delivering, and that…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The freight depots of railroad corporations are commonly used for a double purpose. One is, for keeping goods that are brought there for the purpose of immediate transportation, and also goods transported to them on the railroad for *467immediate delivery to the consignee. The other is, for warehouses for the storage of goods brought there for carriage at some future time, and also of goods brought to them on the railroad, but to be delivered to the consignee at some future time, after the duties of the company as carriers have ceased.
The question arising in this case relates to their liability…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barron v. EldredgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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- Thompson v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1894
- Behrman v. A.C.L.R. R. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1921
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