Ostroff v. Hustis
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, to recover the value of a case of woollen goods shipped by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company over the defendant’s railroad to Philadelphia, and which arrived in that place over the Pennsylvania railroad. There was a trial by the court and verdict for the defendant, to which the plaintiff excepted. Transferred from the January term, 1920, of the superior court by Kivel, C. J.
1Opinion of the CourtPlummer, J.
The case was heard by the court upon depositions taken and introduced by the plaintiff. The defendant offered no evidence and did not question the credibility of the plaintiff's proof. It was in effect conceded that the goods for which suit was brought were shipped from Manchester, N. H., over the defendant’s railroad to Philadelphia, and that they arrived in Philadelphia over the Pennsylvania Railroad, which failed to deliver them to the plaintiff consignee. In such an interstate shipment liability is determined by the federal law, which is: “When the holders of the bills of lading proved…
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