enquiry as the claims were valid and unanswerable since the defendants the bailee of the goods were guilty of gross negligence and breach of duty ... bailees. The claims were paid by the plaintiff company on the 18th September, 1952, in respect of the cargo covered by Civil Suit
under s. 7(d) . A contract of bailment
which imposed on the bailee the obligation to stock and
store the foodgrains in his godowns ... Grain Supply Scheme of
the Government for which a proper custodian and bailee for
reward was necessary. It also recites that the second party
creditor or the debtor. The respective liabilities of the bailor and the bailee are stated in Chapter IX of the Indian Contract ... Section 17 .
This was not done because the primary liability of the bailee in a contract of bailment is not a pecuniary liability but that
from the time when it is delivered to a carrier or other bailee for transmission to the consignee thereof and unless the consignee ... delivery of the entire quality of coal from such carrier or other bailee.
(2) As soon as an order is made under sub-clause
subject to the other provisions of the Act, be that of a bailee under sections 151 , 152 and 161 of the Indian Contract Act. Sections ... Contract Act provide that a bailee is bound to take as much care of the goods bailed to him as a man of ordinary prudence
Railways Act, the responsibility of the Railway Administrations was that of a bailee under Sections 151 and 152 of the Contract Act. In this view ... Administrations in the present case could not be held liable as a bailee. In Lalji Raja and Sons v. Governor-General of India
also been mentioned but it only makes the Railway Administration a defaulting bailee for the purposes of Section 161 of the Indian Contract ... subject to the other provisions of this Act, be that of a bailee under Ss, 151, 152 and 161 of the Indian Contract
subject to the other provisions of this Act, be that of a bailee under Ss. 152 and 161 of the Indian Contract ... agreement purporting to limit the responsibility of the Railway Administration as bailee can only be valid in law if it is in a form approved
that section, the liability of the railway is only that of a bailee under Sections 151 , 152 and 161 of the Act. In its position ... bailee, the railway is bound to take as much care of the goods delivered to it for carriage as a man of ordinary prudenct would
possession of the railway. The railway cannot escape its liability as bailee and the loss is prima facie proof of the negligence and misconduct ... administration for loss, destruction or deterioration of goods is that of a bailee under Sections 151 , 152 and 161 of the Indian Contract Act, subject
