Legal Opinion
Hill Construction Corp. v. American Airlines, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 29, 1993No. 92-1903, 92-1992PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
American Airlines appeals a judgment requiring it to pay approximately $22,000 to Hill Construction Corporation as a result of American’s having temporarily lost, and then damaged, a helicopter blade that Hill had asked American to ship from Puerto Rico to California. American does not contest the fact of liability. Rather, it argues that the court lacked the power to award damages greater than the maximum permissible under a contract provision limiting American’s liability for cargo “lost, damaged or delayed” to $9.07 per pound (a total of $1,814 in this case). The…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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