Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
Bi-R.-R.n-R. TO THE SUPREME COURT ON THE STATE-OP PENNSYLVANIA. The defendants in error brought suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to recover for injuries to a horse shipped by them from Albany in the State'of New York to Cynwyd, in the State of Pennsylvania.
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Bi-R.-R.n-R. TO THE SUPREME COURT ON THE STATE-OP PENNSYLVANIA. The defendants in error brought suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to recover for injuries to a horse shipped by them from Albany in the State'of New York to Cynwyd, in the State of Pennsylvania. The shipment was under a bill of lading of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, bearing date of August 10, 1900. It recited the receipt of the horse— "for transportation from-to destination, if on the said carrier’s line of railroad otherwise to the place where…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
The right to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania herein depends upon the proper assertion of a right or privilege under the Federal Constitution or statutes which was denied to the plaintiff in error by the adverse holding of the state court.
Upon the trial in the Common Pleas Court, it was contended that the special contract above recited limited the recovery of the plaintiff to the sum of one hundred dollars. The court refused to so charge, but, holding that the policy and law of Pennsylvania, as declared by her courts of last resort, did not permit such limitations on…
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