New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

The Court of King's Bench, for the District of Montreal, has decided that proprietors of steamboats are to be considered as common carriers, and legally responsible for the safe delivery of all goods entrusted to them, notwithstanding every clause to the contrary in their advertisements, bills of lading, or other documents. The Chief Justice maintained in his charge, that as bills of lading could not contain any valid clause annulling the existing laws, all such stipulations were void. The law is the same as to stage proprietors.