Edsall v. Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation
New York Court of Appeals
This action was brought to recover for a quantity of wool destroyed by fire while on the defendant’s pier in New York. The wool was shipped at Fort Wayne, Indiana, by the Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway Company. By the bill of lading that company agreed to transport the wool to its station at Pittsburgh (the company to be exempted from loss by fire), and to deliver it to the connecting carrier, where its responsibility as common carrier should cease.
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This action was brought to recover for a quantity of wool destroyed by fire while on the defendant’s pier in New York. The wool was shipped at Fort Wayne, Indiana, by the Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway Company. By the bill of lading that company agreed to transport the wool to its station at Pittsburgh (the company to be exempted from loss by fire), and to deliver it to the connecting carrier, where its responsibility as common carrier should cease. The company guaranteed that the through rate should not be over $1.33 per 100 pounds. It carried the property to Pittsburgh and there delivered…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. -J.,
reads opinion for reversal. Allen, Grover and Rapallo, JJ., concur; Peckham J., not sitting. Folger and Andrews, JJ., did not hear argument.
Order reversed and judgment below affirmed, with costs.
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