Pelton v. . Rensselaer Saratoga R.R. Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court of the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the decision of the court at circuit, upon trial without a jury. This was an action brought against defendant, as common carrier, to recover for the loss of certain goods transported by it.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court of the third judicial department, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon the decision of the court at circuit, upon trial without a jury. This was an action brought against defendant, as common carrier, to recover for the loss of certain goods transported by it. On the 11th day of April, 1870, the plaintiff, then a resident of Battle Creek, Michigan, removed to Greenfield, Saratoga county, four miles distant from Saratoga Springs, and on that day delivered to the Michigan Central Railroad Company, at Battle Creek,…
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, C.
The plaintiff to whom the goods consumed by fire were consigned, had, within about sixteen days of the time of their arrival at Saratoga Springs, the place of their destination, removed to a place four miles distant therefrom, ¡up to which time she had resided in Michigan. When the goods arrived, no one was present to receive them, or to whom vto give notice of their arrival, and her residence was unknown ,to the defendant; the goods were removed from the car to :the defendant’s warehouse, and there kept three days, when, without the defendant’s fault, they were consumed by fire.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Northrop v. Syracuse RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
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- Bell v. St. Louis & Iron Mountain RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1878
- Brown v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1936