 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - 1837 - 614 σελίδες
...within the description of a common carrier of goods, he must exercise it as a public employment ; be must undertake to carry goods for persons generally,...the transportation of goods for hire as a business, and not as an accidental occupation upon one occasion. Teamsters, draymen, and porters who engage to... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts, Henry Jonathan Sergeant - 1842 - 614 σελίδες
...Story has cited this case (Commentaries on Bailm. 322) to prove that a common carrier is one who holds himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire as a business, and not as a casual occupation pro hac vice. My conclusion from it is different. 1 I take it a wagoner... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 σελίδες
...transportation be his principal and direct business, or only an occasional and incidental employment. To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise his business as a public employment ; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally ; and... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1847 - 556 σελίδες
...bailee for hire, that is to say, the responsibility of ordinary diligence. To bring a person under the description of a common carrier, he must exercise...undertake to carry goods for persons generally, and Jie must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire, as a business... | |
 | John Jane Smith Wharton - 1848 - 726 σελίδες
...not, however, every person who undertakes to carry goods for hire that is deemed a common carrier. carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment;...ready to engage in the transportation of goods for liii i-, as a business, nnt as a casual occupation, ¡im hac vice. A common carrier has, therefore,... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1849 - 808 σελίδες
...Boyce » Anderson, 2 Peters (US) R. 150. 9 Ante, § 3. person." Therefore, according to Lord Holt, to bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise the business of carrying as a "public employment," or, as it has been said, " he must undertake to... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1851 - 836 σελίδες
...exercises a public employment, or a delivery to a private person." Therefore, according to Lord Holt, to bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise the business of carrying as a " public employment," or, as it has been said, " he must undertake to... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 328 σελίδες
...responsible on his contract as one. To make a person a common carrier, he must exercise it as a common employment ; he must undertake to carry goods for...the transportation of goods for hire as a business, and not as a casual occupation, j-ro hac vice. Unavoidable, is synonymous with inevitable, and inevitable... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1853 - 584 σελίδες
...the business of conPR 253 ; Young v. Fcwson, 8 Car. & P. 56 ; Prendergast v. Compton, Ibid. 454. 1 To bring a person within the description of a common...the transportation of goods for hire, as a business, and not as a casual occupation, pro Jiac vice. A common carrier has therefore been defined to be one... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1855 - 1120 σελίδες
...authorities in this country on the question, whether, in order to render a person a common carrier he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire asa business, to carry for all persum indifferently, or whether he may be held as a common carrier,... | |
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To bring a person under the description of a common carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment ; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally, and he must hold himself out as ready to engage in the transportation of goods for hire,... 
