Carmack amendment
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922)
Definitions from Case Law
From 226 U.S. 491 - Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · 1913Most cited · 1,837 citing opinions
That any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company receiving property for transportation from a point in one state to a point in another state shall issue a receipt or bill of lading therefor, and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage, or injury to such property caused by it or by any common carrier, railroad, or transportation company to which such property may be delivered, or over whose line or lines such property may pass; and no contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt such common carrier, railroad, or transportation company from the liability hereby imposed.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The purpose of the Carmack amendment to the Hepburn Act was to do away with the diflnculties shippers had encounteired in seeking to recover damages to property carried over more than one line of railroad, by giving the shipper the right to institute his action against the carrier receiving the property for interstate shipment, for damages occurring anywhere in the course of the transportation, leaving it to such carrier to recover from the carrier on whose line the damage occurred. 271 HI. 541.