Farah Manufacturing Co. v. Continental Airlines, Inc.

OPINION

PRESLAR, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by a shipper against the initiating carrier and the connecting carrier for loss of a shipment of air freight. The trial court granted the defendant-carriers’ motion for summary judgment because the plaintiff-shipper had not filed its claim within the time provided by the air freight tariffs. We are of the opinion that the summary judgment should be reversed.

Appellant Farah delivered to Appellee Continental Airlines at El Paso, Texas, a shipment of slacks for delivery to Bamber-gers in Newark, New Jersey. Appellee Braniff was a connecting carrier.…