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Leading American Railway Cases; On Many of the Important Questions Involved in the Law of Railways, Arranged According to Subjects Volume 2 by Isaac Fletcher Redfield

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...Commonwealth; and they received the plaintiff 's property through their agents, and agreed that it should be safely kept, and transported to its destination. It is no answer to a breach of that agreement, to deny the validity of their own contract for the use of the road. An innkeeper might as well resist the claim of a guest for compensation for the loss of his luggage, by suggesting doubts as to the validity of his landlord's title to the inn which he hired. Exceptions overruled. And it has been held that a railway company may run steamboats beyond its own line for the purpose of completing the transit of the goods intrusted to it for transportation; and if they do so, and hold themselves out as common carriers throu;_'hout the entire line thus created, they will be held responsible accordingly. 'Vheeler v. San Francisco & Alameda Railw., Bl Cal. 46, ante, pp. 278 at seq. It seems to be considered, in Perkins 0. Portland, &c., Railw., 47 Me. 573, that in order to bind themselves beyond their own line as common carriers of goods and passengers, transportation companies, whether corporations or joint-stock companies, must be shown to have entered into special contracts to that effect. XIV.' AUTHORITY OF AGENTS AND SERvANTs or RAILWAYS AND OTHER TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES. THE DIRECTORS or CoRPoRATIONs AND JOINT-STOCK C0.IPANIES nAvE POWER TO BIND THE COMPANII-: s IN ALL MATTI-ms OF Busmnss TO THE FULL EXTENT on THE POWERS or THE COMPANY, UNLESS THERE Is SOME CONs'rI'rU'r1oNAL RESTRICTION UPON THEIR POWERS. Philadelphia, Wilmington 4' Baltimore Railway v. Quigley, 21 Howard's U. S. Reports, 202. 1858. A railway, like any other corporation, is responsible for the acts and omissions of its agents, .

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