Engberman v. North German Lloyd Steamship Co.

Upon the trial of this action, brought to recover the value of the luggage of the plaintiff, delivered at Bremen to the defendant, a common carrier of passengers to New York, the plaintiff introduced in evidence a “gepackschein,” or baggage receipt, given her the day before sailing in the defendant company’s office, where, at the same time, was also her luggage. The paper bore upon its face, on either side of the receipt proper, printed in German and in English, the words:

“It is also agreed that neither the ship owner, nor the passage broker or agent, nor the ship, is in any ease liable for…