 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1831 - 360 sivua
...— 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 only proprietors of common... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1832 - 460 sivua
...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. (1.) Carriers... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 sivua
...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. 249, 250. The owners... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 sivua
...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, § 495. Common carriers... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Thomas Pendleton Burnett - 1844 - 252 sivua
...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 one in the community,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1849 - 916 sivua
...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 Citizens Bank v. The Nantucket... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 706 sivua
...Court, WILLARD, J. A common carrier has been ^ defined to be one who, as a regular business, undertakes for \ hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to em- \ ploy him, from place to place. (Story on Bailm. § 495.) In I this general sense of the term,... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - 1850 - 808 sivua
...book, which has been 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1850 - 594 sivua
...In § 495, the learned author 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." § 496. " Common curriers are generally of two descriptions, — 1. Carriers... | |
 | 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 sivua
...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 company clearly comes... | |
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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. 
