Hugh Mack Company Ltd v Burns Laird Lines Ltd
Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
Judgment Date | 01 January 1944 |
Date | 01 January 1944 |
Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
Conditions of shipment safeguarding shipowners - Validity - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924 (14 15 Geo. 5, c. 22), sec. 3 and Schedule, Article 6.
The plaintiffs in Belfast delivered goods to the defendants for carriage to Scotland, with a consignment note and the defendants' form of receipt for the goods; both documents embodied the defendants' conditions of carriage, and both were marked "Non-negotiable." The receipt was signed on behalf of the defendants and was returned to the plaintiffs. No bill of lading was issued. The goods were lost in transit. The conditions of carriage, if valid, were sufficiently wide to protect the defendants from liability for the loss of the goods. In an action for damages for loss of the goods, Held, 1. That the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, did not apply to the case because the receipt given was not a "bill of lading or similar document of title" 2. That section 4 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1924, modifies Article VI of the Schedule to the Act in the case of the carriage by sea from any port in Great Britain or Northern Ireland to any other port in Great Britain or Northern Ireland, or to a port in Eire, and in such a case a carrier and a shipper are at liberty, in regard to goods of any class, to enter into any agreement in any terms as to the responsibility and liability of the...
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