Speare v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 639
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 217

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Common carriers — Railroads.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company, a terminal carrier, to recover for the loss of household goods, it appeared that a storage company, in Portland, Oregon, gave to the plaintiff a receipt for certain packages of household goods, and agreed that they should be “forwarded in a collective carload of household goods,” to a freight company in Chicago. Plaintiff knew nothing of the condition of the four boxes and two barrels in which the goods were packed at the time they were shipped to Chicago. The receipt which the plaintiff received also stated that the contents and condition of packages were unknown, except that they were in apparent good order. When the goods were received in Chicago they were delivered by the freight company to a railroad company as an initial carrier to be delivered by the defendant, a terminal carrier, in Philadelphia. The plaintiff produced no evidence whatever that the goods alleged to have been lost ever came into the possession of the initial railroad company at Chicago. Held, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover.</p>