The contract sued on was made in October, 1891, more than a year before the passage of the Harter Act, and the case is unaffected by its provisions. Act of February 13, 1893, c. 105; 27 Stat. 445.
By the law of this country, before that act, as declared upon much consideration by this court, common carriers, by land or sea, could not, by...
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