Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bailments and Carriers: Including Ordinary Bailments, Pledges, Warehousemen, Wharfingers, Innkeepers, Postmasters, and Public Carriers of Goods and Passengers IN the, preparation of a new edition of Cases on Carriers it has seemed highly desirable not only to incorporate some of the recent decisions of the courts relating to carriage of goods and of passengers, but also to cover, as a new subject, the law of bailments, not by merely prefixing a few of the old cases which have been stepping stones in reaching the doctrine of common carriers' extraordinary liability, but by giving a substantial collection of the cases, old and new, in which the characteristics of bailment and the resulting relations of bailee to bailor and to third persons should be made to appear. The historical development of the bailment conception could not well be presented without adding to the cases of ordinary bailment those of the special classes which have in use become known by particular names, to wit: Pledges, Warehousemen, Wharfingers, Innkeepers, and Postmasters. 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.