Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 766 · Decided 13 October 2011
Shaw Wallace & CO. LTD. (Now United Spirits LTD.) v. Nepal Food Corporation & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 766 · [2011] 15 S.C.R. 1181
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7100/2001
- Decided
- 13 October 2011
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, H.L. GOKHALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
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 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
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