Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action on the case to December Term, 1862, by William H. Brown, against The Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Gompany, to recover the value of a barrel of whiskey, delivered to the defendants to be carried to Portress Monroe. The defendants were a transportation company between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company was a similar company, between Baltimore and Portress Monroe.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia. This was an action on the case to December Term, 1862, by William H. Brown, against The Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Gompany, to recover the value of a barrel of whiskey, delivered to the defendants to be carried to Portress Monroe. The defendants were a transportation company between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company was a similar company, between Baltimore and Portress Monroe. On the 2d of April, the defendants’ agent received at their office in Philadelphia, from J. P. Tobias & Co., for the plaintiff, a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Thompson, J.
It appears in the uncontradicted testimony of Mr. Falls, president of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company, that that company and the Baltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company had business connections during the month of April 1862, and that his company’s line plied between Baltimore and Fortress Monroe and other points. Both were transportation companies, and of course common carriers. It appears by the *81bill of lading that the whiskey, for the loss of which this action was brought, was shipped by the defendants’ line to Fortress Monroe,…
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