Excerpt from Selected Cases on the Law of Bailments and Carriers: Including the Quasi-Bailment Relations of Carriers of Passengers and Telegraph and Telephone Companies as Carriers In making this volume of "Selected Cases on the Law of Bailments and Carriers," the guiding principle has been to secure the clearest and fullest statement and application of every leading principle of the subject within the range of a moderate sized book. The important cases, especially on the law of Carriers, are so many as to make it impossible to include all the leading cases. Moreover, the law of Carriers is such a very modern thing as to make it desirable to include many cases too recent to be considered leading cases. Accordingly, an effort has been made to include all the greatest cases, even those of considerable length, and such others as, because of their broad scope, recent date or clear statements of principles, seem to fully cover the subjects of this branch of the law. The Selected Cases are intended to be complete enough to fit the book for use by those who prefer the "case-method" of study exclusively. A considerable portion of the cases are chosen from those reported in the American Decisions, American Reports or American State Reports, both because these cases are in general well suited to the purpose, and because this plan brings to the attention of the student the exhaustive notes of the editors of those series of cases. To these are added leading Federal and English cases, as well as some others that seem especially desirable. In general the opinions are presented in full. In some instances, however, portions are omitted, because they have no bearing in bailment law, or contain references to cases printed elsewhere in the volume. Such omissions are always indicated. The cases are not edited, and but few cross-references are made. 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.