Ladue v. . Griffith

When the property in question was delivered on board the steamboat at Detroit, marked and consigned to Leander Warner, Leicester, Massachusetts, it was so delivered for transportation to that place.

It was known to the shipper, doubtless, that the steamboat Hudson could carry it no further than Buffalo; and it was therefore consigned to the care of the defendants at that place, who were carriers upon the Erie canal, to be carried or forwarded by them by canal, in the regular course of business, to Albany, and then to deliver the same at East Albany, at the railroad depot, to be further…