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Livery-Stable

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

A place where horses are groomed, fed, and hired, and where vehicles are let.' Live'ry-statale keeper. One whose business is to Jieep horses for hire, or to let, keep, feed, or board, horses for others. i" A livery-man is bound to keep safe horses, or fully » Kendall v. Miller, 47 How. Pr. 449 (1874). 'Picot v. Armistead, 2Ired.

Eq. 230 (1843). s Eeiche v. Smythe, 7 Blatch. 235 (1870). ' The Matilda Lewis, 5 Blatch.

583 (1867). ^ F. livrie, a thing delivered, a delivery. » [2 Bl. Com. 68. ' [2 Bl. Com. 313-16; 2 Utah, 45. 8 Efanger v. Lewis, 32 Pa. 370 (1859). disclose the character of the horse to the driver at the time of letting him.' A person who hires a public hack and gives the driver directions as to the place to which he wishes to be conveyed, but exercises no other control over him. is not responsible for his negligence, nor prevented from recovering from a railroad company for injuries suffered from a collision of its train with the hack, caused by the negligence of both the managers of the train and the driver.^ See Bailment; Condition; Nuisance.,