The Weekly Law Reports
[1956] 2 WLR 232
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
G. H. RENTON & CO. LTD.
v.
PALMYRA TRADING CORPORATION OF PANAMA.
[1954 G. No. 2673.]
1955 Dec. 14,
15,
16,
19,
20.
Singleton, Jenkins and Hodson L.JJ.
Shipping
— Bill of lading
— Port of discharge
— Bills of lading providing for delivery of timber at London and Hull
— Strike, etc., clause
— Meaning of “delay”
— 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”
— Validity
—
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.
Contract
— Construction
— Repugnancy
— Exceptions clause.