Case v. Baldwin

This is an action of contract, seeking to charge the defendants, as common carriers, for damage done to a picture in the course of carriage from Paris, France, to Springfield, in this Commonwealth. A count against them as custom-house brokers was added at the trial, but nothing turns on it. The jury found for the plaintiff, and also found specially that the defendants were jointly interested with Lherbette, Kane, and Company (to whom the picture was delivered in Paris) in the express business from Paris. This finding makes it unnecessary to consider anything except the ruling that there was…