Read v. Spaulding
The Superior Court of New York City
This action was tried before Boswobth, Gh. J., and a jury, on the 21st day of October, 1858, and was brought to argument pursuant to an order then made that the exceptions taken on the trial be heard in the first instance at the General Term.
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This action was tried before Boswobth, Gh. J., and a jury, on the 21st day of October, 1858, and was brought to argument pursuant to an order then made that the exceptions taken on the trial be heard in the first instance at the General Term. The action is brought against the defendant as the proprietor of, or person doing business under the name and style of “Spaulding’s Express Freight Line” to recover for the injury and damage to certain goods of the plaintiff while in course of transportation from the city of New York to Louisville, Kentucky, owing, as alleged, to the negligence of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court—Woodruff, J.
It was admitted on the trial of this action that the goods in question were delivered by the plaintiffs and received by the defendant at the citj of Hew York, under the contract set forth in the case and called a bill of lading.
By that instrument, the defendant declares that he received the goods to be forwarded to the place named in the bill of lading, Louisville; and that all property shipped on that bill of lading will be delivered at the depots of the Company or steamboat landing; and in providing against liability for deficiency in packages, it is agreed that no…
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