Limited Stores, Inc. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

This case concerns the liability of an air carrier for damage to an international shipment of retail goods. By that description, the case seems deceptively simple. The issues this case raises, however, include the applicability of the law of two states and an international treaty under a complicated set of facts. We address each of the issues raised by appellant and cross-appellant in turn.

I

We first must determine what substantive law applies to the issues in this case. As both the trial court and the court of appeals correctly concluded, the “Convention for Unification of Certain Rules…