 | Alfred Septimus Dowling, Great Britain. Bail Court, John James Lowndes - 1850 - 808 страници
...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...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.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1850 - 594 страници
...according to the definition given by Dr. Story, viz., as persona holding themselves out as undertaking for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ them, from place to place, we shall he giving the allegation a sense that will make it consistent with... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1851 - 836 страници
...delivering the opinion of the Court, defined a common carrier to be " one who undertakes, for hire, to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him, from place to place," and this, he added, " might be carried on at the same time with other business." But in this country... | |
 | 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 страници
...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...such as choose to employ him from place to place." 6 Cyc. p. 365. The business of a public moving van company clearly comes within this definition, and... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1853 - 584 страници
...business, and not as a casual occupation, pro Jiac vice. A common carrier has therefore been defined to be one who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport...such as choose to employ him from place to place. Story on Bailments, 322 ; See The Huntress, Davies' R. 82 ; Citizens' Bank v. Nantucket Steamboat Co.,... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1854 - 674 страници
...— Of locatio mercium vehendarum, or the carriage of goods.(e) 1020. A common carrier of goods, is one who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. I! (a) 8 Co. 32. (b) Broom's Max. 108. (c) Sunbolp ». Alford, 1 Horn. & Hurl. 13. (d) Newton ». Trigg,... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - 1855 - 708 страници
...public generally, is a common carrier. According to the most approved definition, a common carrier is one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place. Draymen, cartmen and porters, who undertake to carry goods for hire, as a common employment, from one... | |
 | John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - 1855 - 1006 страници
...7 Gushing, 75. In Dwight et al. v. Brewster et al., 4 Pickering, 50, a common carrier is defined, " One who undertakes for hire or reward, to transport...of such as choose to employ him from place to place :" and it was there held, in the case of a stage coach, whose principal business was to carry the mail... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1856 - 848 страници
...This ruling was supported by the court, on a subsequent hearing, and they say, " a common carrier is one who undertakes, for hire or reward, to transport...such as choose to employ him, from place to place." In The Citizens Bank r. The Nantucket Steamboat Co. 2 Story, R. 17, the court proceed upon the same... | |
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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. 
