Cases on the conflict of laws : selected from decisions of English and American courts . 352 PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. (Part 2 But even were it otherwise, they are not, I think, controlling-, as no rea-son exists why a contract to deliver baggage should not be governed bythe laws of the place where the baggage is to be delivered. * * * ^°. In re MISSOURI S. S. CO. (Court of Appeal, 1889, 42 Ch. D. 321, 58 L. J. Ch. 721.) This was an action for damages, brought in England by A. N. Mun-roe, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, Mass., againstthe Missouri Steamship Company, Limited, whic
Cases on the conflict of laws : selected from decisions of English and American courts . 352 PARTICULAR SUBJECTS. (Part 2 But even were it otherwise, they are not, I think, controlling-, as no rea-son exists why a contract to deliver baggage should not be governed bythe laws of the place where the baggage is to be delivered. * * * ^°. In re MISSOURI S. S. CO. (Court of Appeal, 1889, 42 Ch. D. 321, 58 L. J. Ch. 721.) This was an action for damages, brought in England by A. N. Mun-roe, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, Mass., againstthe Missouri Steamship Company, Limited, which was in course of vol-untary liquidation, for the loss of 264 head of cattle shipped by Mun-roe in America on board their ship, the Missouri. The Missouri Steamship Company was an English company, havingits offices at Liverpool, and the Missouri was an English ship. Thecattle were shipped by Munroe under contracts in the English form,signed by the agents of the company at Boston. The contracts and^ bills of lading contained each a stipulation, relieving the carrier from^ liability for loss occasioned through the negligence of the master andcrew. y^ , The Missouri was wrecked on the coast of Carnarvon and the cattle ^lT^, . were drowned. For the purpose of this claim it was admitted that Ai^ xx/v*^^ >*^ ^^ cargo was lost th
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