 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1849 - 808 páginas
...for refusing to take charge of goods, there must be tendered him a reasonable compensation. Indeed no person is a common carrier, in the sense of the law, who is not a carrier for hire ; and it is the reward which renders him liable ; as Lord Coke says, the carrier " hath his hire, and... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1851 - 836 páginas
...reward. Hurrill v. Owens, 1 Dev. & Bat. (NC) R. 273 ; Anon. v. Jackson, 1 Hayw. (NC) R. 14. " It is exceedingly clear, that no person is a common carrier,...in the sense of the law, who is not a carrier for hirte ; that is, who does not receive, or is not entitled to receive, any recompense for his services.... | |
 | Isaac Edwards - 1855 - 708 páginas
...show him a common carrier, other than the fact that he took such packages of money as were offered.* No person is a common carrier, in the sense of the law, who is not a carrier for hire. It is not necessary that the compensation should be a fixed sum ; it is sufficient if it be in the... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 páginas
...duties, obligations, and liabilities. Citizens' Bank v. Nantucket Steamboat Co., t Story's CCR 16. 2. No person is a common carrier, in the sense of the law, who is not a carrier for hire. It is not necessary that the compensation should be a fixed sum ; it is sufficient if it be in the... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 páginas
...contract to carry them. Tunnell u. Pettijohn, 2 Harr. (Üel.) 48; sp Powell v. Mills, 30 Miss. 231. No person is a common carrier in the sense of the law who is not a carrier for hire. A mere gratuity or voluntary gift will not constitute the relation. But it is not necessary that the... | |
 | 1884 - 978 páginas
...to upon the present occasion. § 67. Jfo one is a common carrier unless for hire. In the next place, I take it to be exceedingly clear that no person is...does not receive, or is not entitled to receive, any recompense for his services. The known definition of a common carrier, in all our books, fully establishes... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1884 - 1392 páginas
...for refusing to take charge of goods, there must be tendered him a reasonable compensation. Indeed no person is a common carrier in the sense of the law who is not a carrier for hire, and it is the reward which renders him liable. As Lord Coke says : ' The carrier hath his hire, and... | |
 | 1886 - 868 páginas
...Bail. 321, sec. 495. In the case o( The Citizens' Bank v. The Nantucket Steamboat Co., 2 Story, 1685, the same learned judge holds this language: "I take...his services. If no hire or recompense is payable ex debito justifies, but something is bestowed as a gratuity, or voluntary gift, then, although the party... | |
 | Robert Hutchinson - 1891 - 1234 páginas
...language : " In the next place, I take it to beexceedingly clear that no person is a common carrier in tho sense of the law who is not a carrier for hire ; that...does not receive or is not entitled to receive any recompense for his services. The known definition of a common carrier in all our books fully establishes... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1895 - 780 páginas
...Hobbs, Shaw 217. 2 McMall. 366 ; 39 Am. Dec. 132. it to be exceeding clear," says Mr. Justice Story,1 "that no person is a common carrier in the sense of...does not receive, or is not entitled to receive any recompense for his services. The known definition of a common carrier in all our books, fully establishes... | |
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I take it to be exceedingly clear, that no person is a common carrier in the sense of the law, who is not a carrier for hire ; that is, who does not receive, or is not entitled to receive, any recompense for his services. The known definition of a common... 
