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Case Is Croft And Scully Case

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Name of the case: Croft & Scully Co. v. M/V Skulptor Vuchetich et al.
United States, Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1982

Facts: Croft & Scully (P), signed a contract to deliver 1755 cases of soft drink to Kuwait. So plaintiff contacted M/V Skulptor Vuchetich (D), which is owned by Baltic Shipping Co., to ship the drinks on board of their vessel. Baltic Shipping Co., in turn, contacted Shippers Stevedoring, Inc., to load the soft drinks on board. While loading the soft drink containers, one of the workers “negligently dropped” containers. So Croft & Scully brought suit against Goodpasture, Shipper Stevedoring, Skulptor and Baltic Shipping to compensate the damages. When calculated the damages conclude 42,120 cans of soft drink. The district court dismissed a motion against Goodpasture according to the Himalaya Clause because it had no agency relationship with the Shippers Stevedoring. The Bill of Lading containing Himalaya Clause, concluded by the agency representative, was made before BEFORE the incident took place. Himalaya Clause is one of the provisions of the contract that benefits the third party which is not a party of a given contract. The protection that the defendant Stevedoring used was that liability limits in the United States Carriage of Goods …show more content…

per package, or, in case of goods not shipped in packages, per customary freight unit, the value of the goods shall be deemed to be $500.00 per package or per unit, on which basis the freight is adjusted, and the carrier's liability, if any, shall be determined on the basis of a value of $500.00 per package ... unless the nature of the goods and a valuation higher than $500 shall have been declared in writing by the shipper upon delivery to the Carrier and inserted in this bill of lading and extra freight paid if required and in such cases ... the Carrier's liability, if any, shall not exceed the declared

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