Legal Opinion

Kitz Corp. v. Transcon Shipping Specialists, Inc.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 28, 1995PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bertram Katz, J.) entered July 27, 1994, which, to the extent appealed from, denied third-party defendant-appellant J&J Air Freight Trucking Co.’s motion for partial summary judgment declaring that its liability, if any, is contractually limited to $50, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A party that is a stranger to a contract of carriage is not bound by limitations of liability in that contract (cf., Abdul*262Haq v Pakistan Inti. Airlines, 101 Misc 2d 213, 214). No party had authority as an agent or otherwise to bind defendant to a limitation of J&J’s…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Abdul-Haq v. Pakistan International AirlinesNew York Supreme Court · 1979

3Cited by3 opinions

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  2. ABN AMRO VERZEKERINGEN BV v. Geologistics Americas, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 2003
  3. Kirschenbaum ex rel. Estate of EMS Financial Services, LLC v. Federal InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2014

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