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B-197911.2 1 (1988-09-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States 151 Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Interstate Van Lines, Inc. - Damaged Household Matterof: Goods File: B-197911.2 Date: September 9, 1988 DIGEST A common carrier acknowledging its liability for damaging a shipment of household goods must pay the full cost of repairing that damage (up to the agreed limit of liability) even though some incidental pre-existing scratches to one item are also repaired in the process. However, the carrier is not liable for damage alleged to have occurred to another item but not shown to be greater than the pre-existing damage noted on the inventory at the time the goods were received by the carrier. DECISION Interstate Van Lines, Inc./A World Wide Moving, Inc. (Interstate), has appealed our Claims Group's denial of its claim for the amount the United States Navy set off from Interstate's account for damage to two items of a service member's household goods Interstate transported.l/ We reverse the disallowance of the carrier's claim as to one item (waterbed rails), but we sustain the disallowance as to the other item (a dresser). Waterbed Rails Interstate has already agreed to. the Navy's recovery of $96 for loss or damage to five items of the service member's shipment. However, Interstate reclaims $44.10 deducted from it for damage to two waterbed rails because it believes the Navy has not shown the rails to be in worse condition upon 1/ The goods belonging to Petty Officer Third Class Ellen L. Irvin, USN, were shipped by the Navy in May 1986 from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Groton, Connecticut, on Government Bill of Lading NP-906,924.

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