Banks v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe municipal court of Minneapolis by Orin Banks, doing business as A. M. Banks Sons, to recover $233.90 damages for defendant’s negligence in transporting forty-five barrels of cranberries claimed to have been frozen in transit from Jersey City to Pittsburg.
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Action in tbe municipal court of Minneapolis by Orin Banks, doing business as A. M. Banks Sons, to recover $233.90 damages for defendant’s negligence in transporting forty-five barrels of cranberries claimed to have been frozen in transit from Jersey City to Pittsburg. The answer alleged that in the bill of lading there was a written stipulation that neither defendant nor any carrier should be accountable for the weight, quantity or condition of the property shipped thereunder; that the plaintiff loaded the goods in the car, and, if any damage resulted, it was caused solely by plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
Action brought in the municipal court of the city of Minneapolis to recover damages to forty-five barrels of cranberries, alleged to have been frozen by the negligence of the defendant while they were in transit over its railway lines from Jersey City to Pittsburg. It does not appear from the record how, if at all, the summons was served on the defendant; but it does show that the defendant appeared generally and answered to the merits without objection, except that it concluded its answer to the merits with allegations to the effect that *51the defendant was a foreign corporation domiciled in…
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- Schleuder v. CoreySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
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