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" In the absence of special contract there is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver the goods intrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would be a reasonable time. Not only storms and floods and other natural causes... "
Practitioners' Journal - Page 29
1956
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 34

1887 - 542 pages
...contract there Is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver I he goods intrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the tracks or disable the rolling stock or...
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An Investor's Notes on American Railroads

John Swann - 1886 - 244 pages
...contract, there is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver the goods entrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, or a mob may tear up the tracks, or disable the rolling-stock,...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 23

1886 - 646 pages
...166. 5Wibertv. New York & Erie RR Co., 12 NY ító; Blackstock v. New York & Erle K. Co., 20 Id. 48. what, under ordinary circumstances, would be a reasonable...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the tracks or disable the rolling stock or...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1887 - 736 pages
...contract there is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver the goods intrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge ; a mob may tear up the tracks or disable the rolling stock, or...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 11

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 1052 pages
...Shore etc. R'y Co., 102 NY 563, 55 Am. Bep. 837, where it is said that "not only storms and floods, ami other natural causes, may excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the track or disable the rolling stock, or...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 11

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 1032 pages
...Shore etc. R'y Co., 102 XY 563, 55 Am. Rep. 837, where it is said that " not only storms and fioods, and other natural causes, may excuse delay, but the conduct of men nay also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the track or disable the rolling...
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The Elements of the Law of Bailments and Common Carriers

Irving Browne - 1896 - 302 pages
...public enemy," even in respect to delay in the transportation. But now it is said in the case last cited "not only storms and floods, and other natural causes...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the track or disable the rolling stock, or...
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The Elements of the Law of Bailments and Common Carriers

Irving Browne - 1896 - 294 pages
...spect to delay in the transportation. But now it is said in the case last cited "not only storm ч and floods, and other natural causes may excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn down a bridge, a mob may tear up the track or disable the rolling stock, or...
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The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law, Volume 6

David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1206 pages
...contract, there is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver the goods intrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would...excuse delay, but the conduct of men may also do so." 3. See the title CARRIERS OF Goons, vol. 5, p. 368. See also American Express Co. r. Smith, 33 Ohio...
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Elements of the Law of Bailments and Carriers Including Pledge and Pawn and ...

Philip Taylor Van Zile - 1902 - 856 pages
...contract there is no absolute duty resting upon a railroad carrier to deliver the goods intrusted to it within what, under ordinary circumstances, would...storms and floods and other natural causes may excuse dela}', but the conduct of men may also do so. An incendiary may burn a bridge, a mob may tear up the...
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