Falvey v. Northern Transportation Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Hacine County. This was an action to recover the value of six cases of steel which the defendant undertook to transport from the city of New York to Racine in this state.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Hacine County. This was an action to recover the value of six cases of steel which the defendant undertook to transport from the city of New York to Racine in this state. The complaint stated that the defendant received the steel at the city of New York on the 10th of November, 1860, for transportation to Racine, each case marked “ Thomas Falvey, Racine, Wis., N. T. Oo.’s Express — steam on lakethat on or about the 23d of that month, the steel was placed by the defendants on the propeller “ Dacotah ” at Buffalo, and on the same day the vessel was wrecked and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.,
It is an admitted fact that there was a delay of twelve or thirteen days in transporting tbe six boxes of steel in controversy, from New York to Buffalo. Tbe testimony is very clear upon the point, that tbe usual time for transporting goods by tbe appellant’s line between those cities, is about three days. The boxes of steel were delivered to the carriers in New York on the 10th of November, to be transported, by steamboat on the lakes, to Eacine. It appears that the goods were shipped on a propeller from Buffalo on the 22d or 23d of the same month, and that the vessel…
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