MERCHANT, or FOR-WARDER. one who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a coin-pensation from the owners, having no concern in the vessels or wagons by which they are transported, and no interest in the freight, and not being deemed a common carrier, but a mere warehouseman and agent. Story, Bailm. $$ 502, 500. Schloss v. wood, 11 Colo. 287, 17 Pac. 910; Ackley v. Kellogg, 8 Cow. (N. Y.) 224; Place v. Union Exp. Co., 2 IIilt. (N. Y.) 19; Bush’v. Miller, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 488
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
