Knight v. Carolina Coach Co.

This Court in Cooper v. R. R., 161 N. C., 400, announced the policy of the law in this State to be, that common carriers in intra-state shipments could not make a valid contract limiting liability for negligence resulting in loss or damage to the baggage of a passenger. In that ease baggage liability was limited to $100 “unless a greater value has been declared by the owner and excess charges paid thereon at the time of taking passage.”

The question of law is, whether chapter 136, Public laws of 1927, takes a bus company out of the operation of the rule declared in the Cooper case, with…