Gleason v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co., 278 U.S. 349 (1929)

U.S. Supreme Court, (January 02, 1929)

Docket number: 51

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U.S. Supreme Court GLEASON v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO., 278 U.S. 349 (1929)

[Page 278 U.S. 349, 358]

authority by imposing a new liability on the principal for the agent's act in issuing the bill, even though the merchandise was not received. But respondent's liability here is not predicated on the agent's authority to issue bills, which, so far as appears, he did not have, but upon his authority to notify petitioner of the arrival or nonarrival of the merchandise, which he clearly did have. Congress, by enlarging in a Bills of Lading Act the implied authority of an agent to issue bills of lading, can hardly be said to have dealt by implication with a general rule of liability applicable in other classes of transactions not involving bills of lading.

REVERSED.

Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND concurs in the result. Footnotes

Footnote 1 Sec. 22. 'That if a bill of lading has been issued by a carrier or on his behalf by an agent or employee the scope of whose actual or apparent authority includes the receiving of goods and issuing bills of lading therefor for transportation in commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, the carrier shall be liable to (a) the owner of goods covered by a straight bill subject to existing right of stoppage in transitu or (b) the holder of an order bill, who has given value in good faith, relying upon the description therein of the goods, for damages caused by the nonreceipt by the carrier of all or part of the goods or their failure to correspond with the description thereof in the bill at the time of its issue.'

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