The Weekly Law Reports
[1955] 3 WLR 535
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
G. H. RENTON & CO. LD.
v.
PALMYRA TRADING CORPORATION OF PANAMA.
[1954 G. No. 2673.]
1955 June 30;
July 1;
Oct. 7.
July 1;
Oct. 7.
McNair J.
Shipping
— Bill of lading
— Port of discharge
— Bills of lading providing for delivery of timber at London and Hull
— Deviation clause in the event of strikes
— Validity
— Clause permitting discharge of cargo “at port of loading or any other safe and convenient port” such discharge to “be deemed due fulfilment of contract”
— Hague Rules
— “Carrier shall properly and carefully … carry … and discharge the goods carried”
— Proper port
— Meaning
— Strikes at London and Hull
— Cargo discharged at Hamburg
— Not forwarded by carriers to named ports
— Whether due performance of contract
— Water Carriage of Goods Act, 1936, of the Dominion of Canada (1 Edw. 8, c. 49), s. 2, Sch., arts. III, rr. 2, 8; IV, r. 4.