Lord  Abinger,  C.  B.  The  simple  question  in  this  case  is,
whether  the  learned  judge  misdirected  the  jury  in  telling  them  that
if  the  case  were  stripped  of  all  other  circumstances  beyond  the  mere
fact  of  knowledge  by  the  party  that  the  defendants  were  carriers
only  from  Lancaster  to  Preston,  and  if,  under  such  circumstances,
they  accepted  a  parcel  to  be  carried  on  to  a  more  distant  place,  they
are  liable  for  the  loss  of  it,  this  being  evidence  whence  the  jury
might  infer  that  they  undertook  to  carry  it  in  safety  to  that  place.
I  think  that  in  this  proposition  there  was  no  misdirection.  It  is
admitted  by  the  defendants'  counsel  that  the  defendants  contract
to  do  something  more  with  the  parcel  than  merely  to  carry  it  to


302  CARRIERS   OF   GOODS.
Preston ;  they  say  the  engagement  is  to  carry  to  Preston,  and  there
to  deliver  it  to  an  agent,  ^vho  is  to  carry  it  further,  who  is  atterwards
to  be  replaced  by  another,  and  so  on  until  the  end  of  the  journey.
