 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Commercial law - 1831 - 360 pages
...of Goods. 1 . Who is a common Carrier. A common carrier is one, who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport the goods of 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 - Bailments - 1832 - 460 pages
...hoc vice.2 A 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.3 § 496. Common carriers are generally of two descriptions. (1.) Carriers by land. (2.) Carriers... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 590 pages
...on Bailm. 813. (5) A common carrier has 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. 1 Pick. R. 50, 53, per Parker, CJ Vid. also 1 Salk. 249, 250. The owners of a steamboat, carrying not... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...determined were between common persons. COMMON CARRIER, contracts, is one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 252 pages
...affords an easy solution of the question. "A common carrier is one who undertakes for hire or reward, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place." This is a general undertaking ' and embraces every one in the community, and to make it particular... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 916 pages
...a. A common carrier, says Judge Story, has been denned to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of 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... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - Law - 1848 - 480 pages
...as such in a particular case only, is answerable for the want of ordinary care. A common carrier is one who undertakes, for hire, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him. By the English law, it matters not whether the transportation be by land or by water ; but, in some... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 594 pages
...says (sect. 495) : " A common carrier has 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.-' It is said that the evidence here did not support the third issue, because the term "common carrier"... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - Civil procedure - 1850 - 808 pages
...referred to, says : " A common carrier has been denned to be one who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place;" that is, one who does that which the 1848. defendants were proved to do with respect to passengers.... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Business & Economics - 1851 - 836 pages
...regular business and so hold himself out to the world.1 § 70. In Dwight v. Brewster, in Massachusetts,2 Parker, C. J., in delivering the opinion of the Court,...to impose upon persons the responsibility of common carriersIndeed, in this country it is considered reasonable, and to be well settled, that a person... | |
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any man undertaking, for hire, to carry the goods of all persons indifferently;" and in Dwight v. Brewster (1 Pick. 50), to be "one who undertakes, for hire, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place. 
