Belt's Wharf Warehouses, Inc. v. International Products Corp.

A corporate warehouseman appeals from a judgment on the verdict of a jury for damage to goods stored in its charge caused by the high tide that came above the floor of its pier warehouse when hurricane “Connie” struck Baltimore in August of 1955.

Code, 1951, Art. 14A, Sec. 21, declares the common law in the following language: “A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary,…