Peninsula Transit Corp. v. Jacoby

The single question to be determined upon this writ of error is whether or not, in Virginia, a motor carrier for hire of passengers and baggage may limit its liability to $25 for the loss of a parcel of baggage.

Barbara B. Jacoby, the plaintiff below and the defendant in error here, contends that it is unlawful for a passenger carrier to so limit its liability or to contract against its own negligence; that Code section 3930 prohibits such an agreement in this language: “No agreement made by a transportation company for exemption from liability for injury or loss occasioned by its own…