Dunbar v. Boston & Providence Railroad
Cases that cite this one
13 later published cases cite this decision.
- Pacific Express Co. v. Shearer (Ill. 1896)
- Kimbrough v. American Railway Express Company (Ark. 1925)
- L. Kommel & Son v. Champlain Transportation Co. (Vt. 1918)
- Boatsman v. Stockmen's National Bank (Colo. 1914)
- Southern Express Co. v. Ruth & Son (Ala. Ct. App. 1912)
- Singer v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. (Mass. 1906)
- Meyer v. Indiana National Bank (Ind. Ct. App. 1901)
- Pacific Express Co. v. Hertzberg (Tex. App. 1897)
- Shearer v. Pacific Express Co. (Ill. App. Ct. 1892)
- Metzger v. Franklin Bank (Ind. 1889)
- William A. Wilson & Co. v. Adams Express Co. (Mo. Ct. App. 1887)
- Samuel v. Cheney (Mass. 1883)
- Edmunds v. Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. (Mass. 1883)
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Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff sold the gin and whiskey which are the subject of this action to a person calling himself John H. Young of Providence, and delivered them to the defendants to be carried to the same person in Providence by the same name. As he was the only person in Providence who bore that, name, there was no other individual to whom the defendants could deliver the property. A delivery to him would be a performance of the contract. The fact that he was known to the delivery clerk as John F. Gorman, made it necessary for him to conceal from the clerk the fictitious name, and to pretend that he was acting as an agent or servant of John H. Young. He was thus enabled to obtain the property, but by means of this deceit, the property reached the person to whom the plaintiff sold and consigned it. Thus the contract of the defendants was performed in its spirit and letter, and the plaintiff has no cause of action against them. Judgment for the defendants.
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