Goold v. . Chapin
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action to recover of the defendants the value of merchandise lost while in their charge as common carriers. The trial was before a referee, who found these facts: The defendants were common carriers on the Hudson river, between New York and Albany, and received the plaintiffs’ goods at NewAork to be transported to Albany directed to the plaintiffs, at Brockport, to the care of H. Field & Co., Brockport, Ef.
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Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action to recover of the defendants the value of merchandise lost while in their charge as common carriers. The trial was before a referee, who found these facts: The defendants were common carriers on the Hudson river, between New York and Albany, and received the plaintiffs’ goods at NewAork to be transported to Albany directed to the plaintiffs, at Brockport, to the care of H. Field & Co., Brockport, Ef. Y., per “ Atlantic Line,” a line of canal boats running on the Erie canal, and transporting merchandise from Albany to Brochport and Buffalo. The barge…
1Opinion of the Court
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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] Although we cannot fail to see that the destruction of the goods in question was inevitable and that no blame can be attributed to the defendants for their loss, yet the question whether that loss shall be brone by them or by the plaintiffs must be decided according to the principles which are applicable to the legal relation which…
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- Ostrander v. Brown & StaffordNew York Supreme Court · 1818
- Ackley v. KelloggNew York Supreme Court · 1828
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