CARRIERS-LIMIT OF LIABILITY IN BILL OF LADING WHERE CARRIER CONVERTS SHIPMENT

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Abstract

The Carmack and Cummins Amendments to the act of 1887 have wrought some startling changes in the law applicable to interstate shipments. But the end is not yet. The provision in those amendments which makes the initial carrier liable on a bona fide contract, to the amount fixed in the published tariff, "for loss, damage or injury to such property, caused by it or by any common carrier * * * to which such property may be delivered or over whose line or lines such property may pass", provokes the question as to how broadly that provision is going to be interpreted by the federal courts.

Recommended Citation

CARRIERS-LIMIT OF LIABILITY IN BILL OF LADING WHERE CARRIER CONVERTS SHIPMENT, 23 Mich. L. Rev. 160 (1924).
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