Lang v. Brady
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for loss of and injury to household goods delivered to the defendant as a common carrier, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hubbard, J.; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover damages for loss of and injury to household goods delivered to the defendant as a common carrier, brought originally before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hubbard, J.; the court sustained the demurrer and rendered judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHameksley, J.
A common carrier is one whose business is to carry, for hire, from one place to another, the goods of all persons indifferently. The law (except as modified by statute or contract) imposes upon common carriers a duty, as incident to their occupation, to carry and deliver at their destination the goods transported by them in the exercise of their business, safely, and makes them liable for all losses in respect to such goods, unless they arise from the act of God or the public enemy.
The complaint in this ease alleges that the defendant is a common carrier; that the plaintiff delivered to him,…
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