Doan v. St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from, the St. Louis City Circuit Court. —TIon. Jacob Klein, Judge. An agent employed to ship goods to the owner has authority to make such contract with the carrier as in the honest exercise of his discretion he sees fit. Shelton v. Desp. Co., 59 N. Y. 258. An authority to deliver goods to a carrier for transportation includes all the necessary and usual means of carrying it into effect.
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Appeal from, the St. Louis City Circuit Court. —TIon. Jacob Klein, Judge. An agent employed to ship goods to the owner has authority to make such contract with the carrier as in the honest exercise of his discretion he sees fit. Shelton v. Desp. Co., 59 N. Y. 258. An authority to deliver goods to a carrier for transportation includes all the necessary and usual means of carrying it into effect. It can only be executed by obtaining the consent of the carrier to receive them, and the agent is therefore authorized to stipulate for the terms of transportation and sign a contract thereof. Nelson…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
The petition in this action states that the defendant is, and was at the times hereafter mentioned, a corporation and a common carrier of goods and chattels for hire between St. Louis and Louisiana in the state of Missouri; that, on the twenty-second day of November, 1888, at St. Louis, in consideration of the sum of six dollars and thirty cents then paid to the defendant by the . plaintiff, the defendant undertook and agreed safely to carry from St. Louis to Louisiana and there deliver to the plaintiff or his order two horses, one a bay horse, and one a golden sorrel horse, sixteen hands…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Hart v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- McFadden v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1887
- Rice v. Kansas Pacific RailwaySupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Read v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1875
- Harvey v. Terre Haute & Indianapolis RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1881
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Rogan v. Wabash Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1892
- Hurst v. St. Louis & San Francisco RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1906
- Conover v. Pacific Express Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1890
- Bennitt v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1891
- Doan v. St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1891
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