Conkey v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. On the 11th, 12th and 13th of May, 1870, various boxes and other packages of goods were shipped at Milwaukee to be carried upon the defendant company's road to La Crosse in this state, and to be thence carried by the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, and delivered to the plaintiff as consignee, at Lanesboro, in Minnesota.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Milwaukee County. On the 11th, 12th and 13th of May, 1870, various boxes and other packages of goods were shipped at Milwaukee to be carried upon the defendant company's road to La Crosse in this state, and to be thence carried by the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company, and delivered to the plaintiff as consignee, at Lanesboro, in Minnesota. The receipts for these goods were in the following form: “ Received, Milwaukee, May 11, 1870, from X. Y. Z., in apparent good order, to be delivered in like order, the following property, marked ‘ Conkey Bros., Preston,…
1Opinion of the Court
Dixon, 0. J.
The learned counsel for the railway company asked permission at the bar, and the request was also joined in by counsel for the plaintiff, and leave was granted by the court, to re-argue the point decided in Wood v. Railway Co., 27 Wis., 541, that where a common carrier conveys goods over only a portion of the route between the places of shipment and consignment, and holds them for delivery to some connecting carrier, the liability of the former as a common carrier continues until the goods are ready for delivery to the connecting carrier, and until the latter has had a reasonable…
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