 According to the most approved definition, 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.  The Pacific Reporter - Seite 6281886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1831 - 360 Seiten
...of Innholders, and of 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 the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place. Under this general description, are included not... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1832 - 460 Seiten
...business, not as a casual occupation, pro 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.... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 Seiten
...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 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.... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 Seiten
...the pleas and controversies there 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,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Thomas Pendleton Burnett - 1844 - 252 Seiten
...instruction asked. The definition of" common carriers" given, 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... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849 - 916 Seiten
...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 the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place. Com. on Bail. 321, <§. 495. In the case of the... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alfred Septimus Dowling, Great Britain. Bail Court, John James Lowndes - 1850 - 808 Seiten
...Justice Story, in his book, which has been referred to, says : " 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;" that is, one who does that which the 1848. defendants... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1850 - 594 Seiten
...this case are proved to have done. He 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... | |
 | 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 - 1914 - 828 Seiten
...and merchandise within a city are held to be common carriers. A common carrier has been defined as "one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place." 6 Cyc. p. 365. The business of a public moving van... | |
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