Supreme Court of India

Shaw Wallace & Co. Ltd. (now United Spirits Ltd.) v. Nepal Food Corporation & Others

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Reported as [2011] 15 S.C.R. 1181
Bench R.V. Raveendran and H.L. Gokhale JJ.
Decided 13 October 2011

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated in the case of Pichit Samut, Shaw Wallace was liable to pay damages equal to the value of 8 the goods.

Judgment, page 36

From the headnote

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925 - ss.2 and 4; and Article I, clause (b) and Article Ill, r.3 - Role of carrier's agent c and its liability - Contract for sale of parboiled rice between NFC and NHH - Vessel 'Pichit Samut' chartered by NHH for carrying rice to be shipped by NFC to NHH, from Calcutta to Penang, Malaysia - NFC filed suit against the owner of the vessel and its agent Shaw Wallace for recovery of damages 0 on ground of wrongful delivery by the ship-owner to NHH without production of the necessary documents (bills of lading) and wrongful failure on part of the ship-owner and Shaw

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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