Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 216 · Decided 30 August 1968
Union of India v. Brijlal Purushottamdas
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 216 · [1969] 1 S.C.R. 910
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1145/1965
- Decided
- 30 August 1968
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT, K.S. HEGDE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 80
Headnote
B Indian Rc;i/ways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890), ss. 74C(3), 74D, 74£ and 80--Goods conJigned aJ owner's risk rate to one rail11·oy adn1inistra1io11 lost through ncgligt·iu:e of anvlhtr railwa,v adn1inistration-Liability of r.dn1inistration to which xoods consigned-Burden of proving lo stations on B.N. Railway. at owner's risk ra.tc. On the goods bein!? lost \\.'hile at slations on B.N. Rai\\l;ay the respondent sued the Union of Jndia as representing the two rJiJv,·av administrations. The Trial Couri decided against the respondent on thC technical ground that the
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