 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1831 - 360 páginas
...Travellers. SEC. I. — Of the Carriers of Goods. 1 . Who is a common Carrier. A common carrier is one, who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. Under this general description, are included not only proprietors of common baggage wagons, and those... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1832 - 460 páginas
...engage in the transportation of goods for hire as a business, not as a casual occupation, pro hoc vice.2 A common carrier has, therefore, been defined to be...goods of such, as choose to employ him, from place to place.3 § 496. Common carriers are generally of two descriptions. (1.) Carriers by land. (2.) Carriers... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 686 páginas
...; Satterlee v. Groat, 1 Wend. R. 272 ; 1 Bell, Comm. 467, 5th edit ; 1 Bell, Comm. § 39D, 4th edit to be one, who undertakes for hire or reward to transport...goods of such, as choose to employ him, from place to place.1 Although the expression used is a common carrier of goods ; yet this language is not to be... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 páginas
...the innkeeper will be responsible for the loss. Via. Story on Bailm. 813. (5) A common carrier has been defined to be one, who undertakes for hire or...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. 1 Pick. R. 50, 53, per Parker, CJ Vid. also 1 Salk. 249, 250. The owners of a steamboat, carrying not... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 páginas
...pleas and controversies there determined were between common persons. COMMON CARRIER, contracts, is one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. 1 Pick. 50, 53 ; 1 Salk. 249, 250 ; Story, Bailment, § 495. Common carriers are generally of two descriptions,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Thomas Pendleton Burnett - 1844 - 252 páginas
...submitted by defendants. The defendants below were sued as common carriers; " persons wlie undertake for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ them from place to place." To make them liable as such, it is certainly incumbent on the plaintiff... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849 - 916 páginas
...delivery of goods delivered to him." Co. Lit. 89, a. A common carrier, says Judge Story, has been denned to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. Com. on Bail. 321, <§. 495. In the case of the Citizens Bank v. The Nantucket Steamboat Co., 2 Story's... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 páginas
...business, nnt as a casual occupation, ¡im hac vice. A common carrier has, therefore, been denned to ho one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of euch as choose to employ him, from place to place. Although the expression used is a common carrier... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1849 - 808 páginas
...delivering the opinion of the Court, defined a common carrier to be "one who undertakes, for hire, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place," and this, he added, " might be carried on at the same time with other business." But in this country... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 706 páginas
...By the Court, WILLARD, J. A common carrier has been ^ defined to be one who, as a regular business, undertakes for \ hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to em- \ ploy him, from place to place. (Story on Bailm. § 495.) In I this general sense of the term,... | |
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common carrier" has, therefore, been defined to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place. 
