Hanaman v. Liberty Trucking Co.

The plaintiff is a dealer in secondhand printing presses, and the defendant a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce. The action is to recover damages for injury to a three-thousand-five-hundred-pound secondhand printing press of the plaintiff transported by the defendant from Chicago to Beloit which fell from defendant’s truck when being unloaded at plaintiff’s warehouse. The plaintiff alleged in the complaint that the defendant received the machine to be by it “safely carried to Beloit and delivered to the plaintiff” and that the defendant “did not safely carry and deliver . . .…