Zinn v. . New Jersey Steamboat Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon an order denying motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon a verdict. This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs in consequence of defendant’s neglect to fulfill the obligations resting upon it as a common carrier.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, in favor of plaintiffs, entered upon an order denying motion for a new trial and directing judgment upon a verdict. This is an action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs in consequence of defendant’s neglect to fulfill the obligations resting upon it as a common carrier. On the 15th day of October, 1866, the firm of T. 0. Wood & Co., of Augusta, Michigan, shipped to the respondents by the Michigan Central Railroad Company two boxes of merchandise, marked “ Zinn, Aldrich…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
Commoin carriers assume not only the safe carriage and delivery of property to the consignee, but also that merchandise and other property received by them for transportation shall be carried to the place of destination and delivered with reasonable dispatch; and for any unreasonable delay, either in the transportation or its delivery after its arrival at the terminus of the route, they are responsible. (Hand v. Baynes, 4 Whart., 204; Raphael v. Pickford, 6 Scott Ch. N. R., 478 ; Blackstock v. N. Y. and E. R. Co., 20 N. Y., 48 ; Black v. Baxendale, 1 Exch., 410.) The liability of the carrier…
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