Allen v. Rostain
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county, the record presented the following case. Fournier Rostain, the defendant in error, brought an action against Michael Allen and George Grant, trading under the firm of Allen and Grant, to recover damages for the loss of a quantity of merchandise, shipped by them for Nashville, Tennessee, on board a keel boat, which was sunk in the river Monongahela, off the city of Pittsburg.
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IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county, the record presented the following case. Fournier Rostain, the defendant in error, brought an action against Michael Allen and George Grant, trading under the firm of Allen and Grant, to recover damages for the loss of a quantity of merchandise, shipped by them for Nashville, Tennessee, on board a keel boat, which was sunk in the river Monongahela, off the city of Pittsburg. The declaration contained two counts: one, against the defendan tsas common carriers; the other, upon their special undertaking, safely to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Tirghman, C J.
This is an a'ction brought by Rostain, the plaintiff below, against Allen and Grant, the plaintiffs in error, to recover damages for the loss of the plaintiff^ goods, shipped at Pittsburg, to be carried in a boat freighted by the defendants, to Nashville, in the state of Tennessee. The boat sunk in the Monongahela river, off the city of Pittsburg, soon after the goods were laden, in consequence of which, they were greatly damaged. The declaration contains two counts; one in which the defendants are charged as common carriers; the other,…
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