Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York June 26, 1905 (Jacoby v. Platt)

PER CURIAM.

A lady having to return a hat from New York to the plaintiff, a milliner, in Newark, eight miles away, delivered it to one Búmford, a local expressman, who in turn delivered it in good order to the joint-stock association doing business under the style of United States Express Company, which in its receipt fore-fended liability for loss or damage unless proven “to have occurred from