Dixon v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil AotioN for damages, originally commenced before a Justice of the Peace, and carried on appeal to the Superior Court of Guilford county, where it was tried before K¿n\ •/., and a jury at December Term, 1875. The plaintiff instituted the action to recover the sum of two hundred dollars damages, on account of injury to a piano forte, shipped by the plaintiff over the railroad of the defendant.
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Civil AotioN for damages, originally commenced before a Justice of the Peace, and carried on appeal to the Superior Court of Guilford county, where it was tried before K¿n\ •/., and a jury at December Term, 1875. The plaintiff instituted the action to recover the sum of two hundred dollars damages, on account of injury to a piano forte, shipped by the plaintiff over the railroad of the defendant. The plaintiff testified: In September, 1873, he shipped from the city of Boston, via certain lines, including that of the defendant, to Greensboro’, a valuable new piano, in good order, which cost…
1Opinion of the CourtRkade, J.
A continuous line, whether of one road, or of several, and connecting- lines, are not one and the same thing. We have instances of both in this case. The receipt given at Boston for the piano, undertakes to transport it to New York city over two railroads and one steamboat line. This is an instance of a continuous line composed of several. Their liabilities as among themselves, depend upon their agreement, with which the plaintiff has nothing to do. Their liabilities to him are those of common carriers. But this is not important in this case; as, for aught that appears, all that was…
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