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- Title: Railway Company v. Mccarthy
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1877
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Mr. D. W. Paul for the plaintiff in error. The plaintiff in error was only a forwarder. In the absence of any special contract, it was, therefore, only bound to carry the cattle safely and securely over its own road, and, at its terminus, deliver them to the succeeding company, with suitable directions for their carriage the rest of the way. Railroad Company v. Manufacturing Company, 16 Wall. 318; Railroad Company v. Pratt, 22 id. 123; Story, Bailments, sect. 448; Reed v. United States Express Co., 48 N. Y. 462; Inhabitants, &c. v. Hall et al., 61 Me. 519; Hooper v. Wells, Fargo, & Co., 27 Cal. 40.