With certificate granted by the High Court, this appeal has been preferred by the appellants.
At the destination station, the companysignment was found to be short by 37 mds.
of ghee.
The Trial Court decreed the suit holding that the execution of the railway risk numbere in Form A was number proved, and the railway being a bailee of the goods companysigned was liable to make good in loss suffered by the appllants.
The appellant filed a suit against the railway administration for a decree for Rs.
The appellant submitted that the loss was due to the negligence and misconduct of the employees of the railway administration.
It was companytended that the goods had number been properly packed and on that account the goods were booked at owners risk under railway risk numbere in Form A and that the Railway Administration and its employees were number guilty of negligence or misconduct in dealing with the companysignment.
In appeal against the decree, the High Court of Allahabad reversed the decree and dismissed the appellants suit.
The suit was defended by the Union of India.
24 seers 4 ch.
10,965.50 p. as damages for loss suffered by them on account of short delivery in the companysignment.
721200.
C. Shah, C.J. On August 28, 1948, the appellants booked a companysignment of 176 mds 6 seers of ghee in 357 tins from railway station Hathras Killah to Kanpur Central on East India Railway under RR.
