 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 942 pages
...(Story on Bailments, sec. 495.) Varble, Ac. v. Biglejr. " Common carriers undertake generally, and for all people indifferently, to convey goods and...at a place appointed, for hire, and with or without special agreement as to price." (2 Kent, 598.) In Fish v. Chapman (2 Kelly, Ga. R., p. 353) the question... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bailments - 1832 - 460 pages
...general rights of carriers. § 495. First. Who are deemed common carriers. It is not (as we have seen) every person, who undertakes to carry goods for hire,...A private person may contract with another for the carnage of his goods, and incur no responsibility beyond that of any ordinary bailee for hire, that... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bailments - 1840 - 686 pages
...general rights of carriers. § 495. First. Who are deemed common carriers. It is not (as we have seen) every person, who undertakes to carry goods for hire, that is deemed a common carrier.2 A private person may contract with another for the carriage of his goods, and incur no responsibility... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...cobwebs of the civilians."» Common carriers undertake generally, and not as a casual occupation, and for all people indifferently, to convey goods, and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire as a business, b and with or without a special agreement as to price.c They consist of two distinct... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...undertakes to transport the goods of other persons from one place to another for hire. It >A not, however, every person who undertakes to carry goods for hire that is deemed a common carrier. carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...says Chancellor Kent, is one "who undertakes generally, and for all people indifferently, to carry goods and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire,...without a special agreement as to price." (2 Kent Com., 408.) So long as he acts in that capacity, he is a public carrier, and bound to cany for every... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 966 pages
...liable for a Ion by nit at Common carriers undertake, generally, and not as a casual occupation, and for all people indifferently, to convey goods, and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire as a business, (a) and with or without a special agreement as to price, (b) I They consist of two distinct... | |
 | 1865 - 730 pages
...«t Payne-, 213. Page 698. Common carriers undertake generally, and not as a casual occupation, and for all people indifferently, to convey goods and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire as a business an J with or without a special agreement as to pnce. Page 634. Where a person, from tho... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...enemies. 21. Who are common carriers f — 598. Persons who undertake generally, and for all persons indifferently, to convey goods, and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire, as a business, and with or without a special agreement as to price. 22. Into what two classes are they... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1871 - 652 pages
...undertakes to transport the goods of other persons from one place to another for hire. It is not, however, every person who undertakes to carry goods for hire that is deemed a common carrier. To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment.... | |
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Common carriers undertake generally, and not as a casual occupation, and for all people indifferently, to convey goods and deliver them at a place appointed, for hire, as a business, and with or without a special agreement as to price. 
