TITANIC DISASTER
THE APPEAL CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrlghi LONDON, February 10. Sir Vaughan Williams, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, in delivering judgment in the Titanic case, said that neither directions preceding the ebatract nor notices to passengers following the contract are part or parcel of the contract; therefore, it was unnecessary to consider whether sufficient notice of tbo exemption clause had been given intending passengers. Even if the exemption clause were part and parcel of tho contract, it was not in tho form prescribed by the Board of Trade. In connection with the actions for damages brought by relatives of some of those who lost their lives iu the Titanic disaster, the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in June last ruled against the Oceanic Company on a reserved point of law: Whether the company could be absolved from liability by a condition attached to the back of a passenger’s ticket nullifying the contract printed on the front of tho ticket ensuring to passengers compensation, through negligence by the company’s servants. The Court of Appeal upheld this judgment.]
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8654, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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