Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Boston & Lowell Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to charge the defendants as common carriers with the loss of thirty cases of bleached cottons, delivered to them by the Lowell Bleachery, in behalf of the plaintiffs, for transportation from Lowell to New York City, consigned to the plaintiffs’ factor in the latter place.
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Contract, to charge the defendants as common carriers with the loss of thirty cases of bleached cottons, delivered to them by the Lowell Bleachery, in behalf of the plaintiffs, for transportation from Lowell to New York City, consigned to the plaintiffs’ factor in the latter place. The case was submitted to the determination of the court on a statement of agreed facts, of which the following are the material parts : The defendants leased and worked the Stony Brook Railroad, which extended from Lowell to Groton Junction and there connected with the Worcester & Nashua Railroad, which extended…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The law applicable to the conveyance of goods by successive carriers over connecting but independent lines of transportation has recently been very fully considered by this court. The case now before us does not appear to call for anything more than the application of the rules laid down in Darling v. Boston & Worcester Railroad Co. 11 Allen, 295, and Burroughs v. Norwich & Worcester Railroad Co. 100 Mass. 26. It is well settled that a railway company may by contract assume to carry goods beyond, as well as within, the limits of its own line of road ; and the claim of the plaintiffs is, that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Burroughs v. Norwich & Worcester RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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