A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF CARRIERS AS ADMINISTERED IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED BY ROBERT HUTCHINSON THIRD EDITION BY J. SCOTT MATTHEWS AND WILLIAM F. DICKINSON MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO BAR VOLUME I CHICAGO CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1906, by CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington 323028 PUBLISHERS' NOTE TO FIRST EDITION. IN 1875 it came to our knowledge that the author of this volume had been giving great attention to the subject of "Carriers," and had prepared considerable material for a treatise. We felt confident that the legal profession were even then ready to greet a new work on this subject, and that Mr. HUTCHINSON was, by reason of his large acquaintance with the subject and his extended studies, well fitted to respond to the evident want of the profession. But to our request to complete his labors, Mr. HUTCHINSON was unable to accede, owing to a press of professional duties requiring all his attention. In 1877, however, the proposition being renewed, he consented to prepare the manuscript, and thereafter labored unceasingly till the last line of the text was written. A few days after he announced to us the completion of the last chapter, and of his intention to forward it to the printers, we received the melancholy news of his death from yellow fever, near Memphis. A considerable portion of the work had been stereotyped, all of the text was written, but neither the analysis of contents, the table of cases, nor the index, was constructed, and it was necessary that the main body of the text be read, that the citations be corrected in proof, and that the last chapter be revised. This necessary work, the Hon. JAMES O. PIERCE, Judge of the |