Parmelee v. Lowitz

Citations

• 74 Ill. 116

Syllabus

<p>1. Common carrier—what constitutes. One who for hire carries passengers and their baggage, and also baggage alone, for all persons choosing to employ him, from, to, and between railroad depots and hotels, and other places in a city, is a common carrier of goods.</p> <p>2. Same — of goods, liable for all losses not inevitable. A common carrier of goods, who receives and undertakes to carry a trunk from a railroad depot to the owner’s residence, is answerable for all losses, except such as are inevitable, that may occur whilst the trunk is in his possession, and until it is delivered to the owner.</p> <p>3. A common carrier of goods who receives and undertakes to carry a trunk for one not a passenger with such carrier, is responsible for the delivery of the trunk and its contents, notwithstanding the contents consist of articles not usually carried as baggage, unless the owner has been guilty of some fraud or deception.</p>