Schroyer v. Lynch
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
THE plaintiff brought an action on the case, in the district court of Allegheny county, against the defendant, as postmaster of the office in Pittsburg, for the loss óf a letter containing 650 dollars in bank notes, put into the office by his agent in Shanesville, Ohio, and directed to him at New Berlin, Pennsylvania.
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THE plaintiff brought an action on the case, in the district court of Allegheny county, against the defendant, as postmaster of the office in Pittsburg, for the loss óf a letter containing 650 dollars in bank notes, put into the office by his agent in Shanesville, Ohio, and directed to him at New Berlin, Pennsylvania. The declaration contained averments that the letter was mailed at the office in Shanesville, and received for distribution at the office in Pittsburg, by the regular course of the mail; and that it was the defendant’s duty to have caused it to be maijed again for the…
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The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
This action, it must be observed, is not against the postmaster-general, but against a deputy, appointed by him to attend to the discharge of the duties appertaining to the post-office located and kept in the city of Pittsburg. Deputy postmasters have nothing to do with the carrying of the mail, by means of which letters, packets, &c., are conveyed and transmitted throughout the Union. The carriers of the mails are not employed by them; nor have they any authority or control whatever over the carriers. The duty of a deputy postmaster is…
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