Passengers' Luggage.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 139, 11 December 1895, Page 3

Passengers' Luggage.

An import judgment as to the loss : <tf pawengera* luggagejias torn given by th/inclish Conrts. Mr Action sued the f - :^oi»tii : - Mail Packets Company in the A QaeenV Bench Division to recover da- £ mages for loss of luggage shipped on the 8 «VTin*«llon Castle, on a voyage from to London. Plaintiffs ticket had printed on the face of it, "Neither nier. chandice, specie, precious stones, jewell«ry» nor bullion to be carried under description brJoggage. The owners do not bold themselves responsible for any loss, dunige. or detention of luggage under Sreircumstances." Plaintiffs despatch box, containing money, jewellery, and Wipers, of the value of £300 was placed Srbis cabin. It was stolen from the cabin between Durban and Port Elizabeth. Plaintiff swore that his attention was not called to the conditions on the ticket before the loss of the box. The liord Chief Justice decided that the conditions on the ticket were the terms of the contract, and that although plaintiff did not read them, but merely saw them, the Communication of the document to ' him was, in the circumstances of the case, reasonable notice to him of the terms and conditions upon which the defendants were willing to enter into the contract. The case was subsequently carried to the Court of Appeal, which also decided in favour of the company.