Pennsylvania Co. v. Fairchild

Citations

• 69 Ill. 260

Syllabus

<p>1. Contract—by what law governed. -The law is well settled, that contracts are to be construed according to the laws of the State where made, unless it is presumed, from tlieir tenor, that they were entered into with a view to the laws of some other State. This rule applies to the contract of a carrier to transport goods marked to a party- residing in a different State.</p> <p>2. Evidence—carrier's receipt admissible on question of the extent of his undertaking. Where goods were delivered to a railroad company in Indiana, marked and directed to a consignee in Leavenworth, Kansas, for transportation, its line of road terminating at Chicago, 111., and it appeared that on the next day the company made out and delivered to the shipper a hill of lading, containing an agreement to carry the goods to the company’s freight station in Chicago, and limiting its liability to its own line of road, and that the goods reach Chicago in safety, and were transferred to another company, in whose custody they were burned, it was held, in a suit against the company so giving such bill of lading, to recover for the loss, that it was error to refuse to admit in evidence on the part of the company, the shipping order, containing directions as to the shipment and the bill of lading'.</p>