Moore's Executors v. Patterson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Blair county. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Robert Moore, in 1842, against Henry L. Patterson. The plaintiff resided in Huntingdon and the defendant in Hollidaysburg, and had a wharf and warehouse there, and was a common carrier on the Pennsylvania Canal.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Blair county. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by Robert Moore, in 1842, against Henry L. Patterson. The plaintiff resided in Huntingdon and the defendant in Hollidaysburg, and had a wharf and warehouse there, and was a common carrier on the Pennsylvania Canal. In the fall of 1841, Stewart & Horrell, warehousemen at Water Street, shipped on canal boats belonging to the defendant 1577 blooms for the plaintiff, Robert Moore, to be delivered in Pittsburgh. Of these blooms, 430 were not delivered to the plaintiff’s consignee at Pittsburgh; and this action was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Armstrong, J.
Henry L. Patterson was a common carrier on the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad. In the fall of 1841 he received on board his canal boats 1577 blooms for Robert Moore, to be delivered at Pittsburgh. The next season, 1842, it was discovered that 430 of the blooms never reached the consignee of Moore, and were never delivered for him; but when at Patterson’s wharf, at Hollidaysburg, his clerk changed the manifest and forwarded them for Hileman & Hammond, who had no control over them. The law holds every common carrier intrusted with goods as…
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