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" To bring a person within 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, as... "
The Pacific Reporter - Page 229
1918
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 14; Volume 77

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 942 pages
...risk. A common carrier is regarded by the law as an insurer," etc. (Angell on Carriers, sec. 67.) " To bring a person within the description of a common...hire as a business, not as a casual occupation pro hoe vice." (Story on Bailments, sec. 495.) Varble, Ac. v. Biglejr. " Common carriers undertake generally,...
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Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and ...

Joseph Story - Bailments - 1832 - 460 pages
...description of a common \ carrIer, [lle__Inust_^xercise -it-a*-a -public ejnploymentj he must understake to carry goods for persons generally ; and he must...hire as a business, not as a casual occupation, pro hoc vice.2 A common carrier has, therefore, been defined to be one, who undertakes for hire or reward...
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A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Powers and Duties of Justices of the ...

Joseph Rockwell Swan - Constables - 1837 - 614 pages
...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...
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Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and ...

Joseph Story - Bailments - 1840 - 686 pages
...say, the responsibility of ordinary diligence.3 To bring a person within the description of a commou carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment...hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation pro I1ac vice.4 A common carrier has, therefore, been defined 1 2 Kent, Comm. Lect 40, p. 605, 606, 3d...
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ..., Volume 1

Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts, Henry Jonathan Sergeant - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 614 pages
...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...
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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the ..., Volume 1

John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...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...
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Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and ...

Joseph Story - Bailments - 1846 - 726 pages
...beyond that of any ordinary bailee for hire, that is to say, the responsibility of ordinary diligence.1 To bring a person within the description of a common...hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation pro hoc vice? A common carrier has, therefore, been denned to be one, who undertakes for hire or reward...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 2

Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...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...
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The Law Lexicon, Or Dictionary of Jurisprudence: Explaining All the ...

John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...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,...
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A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers, by Land and by Water

Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...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...
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