Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Providence & New York Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Conteact, with a count in tort, alleged to be for the same cause of action. Writ dated September 26, 1870. The count in tort alleged that the defendant, a corporation duly established by law, was a common carrier of goods and merchandise; that on May 22, 1868, it received at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, from the plaintiff’s agents, thirty cases of bleached cotton cloth, which it agreed with the plaintiff, for a reasonable compensation, to transport safely from…
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Conteact, with a count in tort, alleged to be for the same cause of action. Writ dated September 26, 1870. The count in tort alleged that the defendant, a corporation duly established by law, was a common carrier of goods and merchandise; that on May 22, 1868, it received at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, from the plaintiff’s agents, thirty cases of bleached cotton cloth, which it agreed with the plaintiff, for a reasonable compensation, to transport safely from Providence to the city of Hew York ; that the thirty cases contained 39,691 yards of cloth, of the value of $7000; that…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
The plaintiff contended and the jury have found that the fire which destroyed the plaintiff’s goods was caused by the neglect of the defendant corporation.
There was evidence tending to show that the defendant’s pier was 'covered for its whole length by a building with ends and sides of pine boards, and the interior of which was open throughout, so as to operate, as the city marshal testified, like a horizontal chimney; that in one room was a stove, two feet from i partition, with a stove-pipe-running through the ceiling, and with no protection around either stove or pipe; that the fire wag…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Dial v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Haines v. CarpenterSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Salisbury Mills v. TownsendMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Providence & New York Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Knowlton v. Providence & New York Steamship Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
3Cited by11 opinions
- Providence & New York Steamship Co. v. Hill Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Simon v. Town of NeedhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Veginan v. MorseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Mayhew v. Sullivan Mining Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1884
- McMahon v. McHaleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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