Canney v. American Express Co.

This is an action of contract or tort to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff’s goods while in the course of transportation by the defendant, a common carrier. The case comes to this court on an appeal by the plaintiff from a decision of the Appellate Division of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dismissing the report of a judge of that court. Some of the goods in question were packed in a barrel and some were in a case. “The barrel contained dishes; straw was laid on the bottom of the barrel and on top of the straw were the dishes each wrapped in several sheets of newspaper or…