jurisdiction to deal with the suit. With reference to the
consignment note, it was submitted that the Court at Udaipur
alone had jurisdiction to deal ... matters arising under the
consignment at the goods entrusted for
transport".
Additionally, at the top of the consignment note the
jurisdiction has been specified
dated 9.3.1994 were entrusted to the
respondent who issued Consignment Note No.52330 dated
11.3.1994 to the appellant. Since the consignment was not
delivered ... consignment of
77 boxes for delivery to their clearing, forwarding and
shipping agents M/s Jeena & Co. at Bombay under goods
consignment note
consignment note itself. At the top of the said note, in bold letters, it is written;
"'CONSIGNMENT NOTE' ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION ... defendant to carry the consignment from Calcutta to Kirloskarwadi and as Exh. 49 the consignment note, was handed over by the defendants to the consignor
petitioner could not deliver the said consignment either to the consignee mentioned in the said consignment note or to any other person. The consignee ... consignment note, had wrongfully and illegally delivered the consignment covered by and under the consignment note to an unauthorised person and/or to a stranger
prescribed manner, a
declaration on the body of the consignment
note or on a document of like nature that the
goods being so transported ... each commodity of the
consignment: ..................
[e] quantity/weight of each commodity in the
consignment: ..................
...11/-
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[f] value of the consignment with custom duty,
freight
firm. The entire goods of the company were covered by fourteen consignment notes and despatched by fourteen lorries and out of these, twelve lorry-load ... liability was limited by the above conditions embodied in the consignment notes and the lorry owners as agent of the consignor were liable
would be charged, agrees to book the consignment and then the transporter issues the goods receipt/consignment note to the consignor. In this background ... consignments were booked for carriage against the agreed fare to be paid at the destination and in token thereof the goods receipts/consignment notes were
liability and trading particulars, based on the
consignment notes by which the commodities were received
at the Maveli Store as well as the Weekly Statements ... economic cost
would be more than the value shown in the consignment
notes, computing an average of the minimum of 20% and
maximum
Madras consigned two cases of medicines to the plaintiff to be delivered at Vijayawada as per Ex. B.2 consignment note dated ... When the plaintiff presented Ex. B.2 consignment note, only one of the cases of medicines was delivered by the lorry office at Vijayawada
notice dated 7-5-1970 in respect of the goods consigned under consignment note No. 40751 and for Rs. 1,257/_ by a notice dated ... respect of the goods consigned under consignment note No. 40750. The petitioner did not comply with the said notices. As both the consignments were sent