Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers by Land and Internal Navigation
It will be found throughout the book that there are frequent references to decisions in the American Courts. No treatise on the law of carriers would be complete unless it contained references to cases decided in the United States. The enormous distance between the different towns in that country has made this branch of the law one of extreme importance there, and the treatises of Story and Angell on it are held in reverence by lawyers throughout the world. The writer hopes a generous allowance will be made for shortcomings, as the branch of law dealt with con tains somewhat intricate questions connected with the receiving and forwarding of traffic, and the equal treat ment of the public by railway and canal companies. The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, is set out in the Appendix, and noticed in the text. The writer has not dealt with the practice before the Railway and Canal Commissioners, as the procedure is not yet settled; and he intends hereafter to devote a separate work to the subject. The writer desires to acknowledge valuable assistance in revision of the proofs which has been rendered to him by his friend, Mr. Yarborough anderson, of the North Eastern Circuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
