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B-247430 1 (1992-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 S UmWd S.w. Gees Decision P9_ Matter of: Suddath Van Lines rile: 8-247430 Date: July 1, 1992 A gaa AAiM case of carrier liability is not established where in 1988 a shipper provides no substantive evidence to support her allegation that $2,000 was paid in 1975 for a Karastan carpet lost by the carrier, which had been listed on the inventory as only rug, red, green. The member must offer some substantive evidence that indicates the value of the lost item. * ~ DIISIOW . Suddath Van Lines requests review of our Claims Group's settlement denying its claim for a refund of $1,646.50, which the Air Force had set off for the loss of a rug during the shipment of a service member's household goods in September 1988. We reverse the settlement. The lost rug was listed on the inventory as *rug, red, green. The member claimed that she bought the rug in 1975, for $2,000. She did not furnish a purchase receipt, but instead submitted evidence of the replacement value of a 9' x 11' Karastan carpet: a retailer's 1988 estimate of $2,356.50. The amount set off is the depreciated value. The Claims Group, in affirming the Air Force's set-off, pointed out that the carrier was responsible for accurately describing the item on the inventory, and that the member had no duty to annotate the inventory with a specific description or otherwise to specify that the rug had a high value. The Claims Group determined that Suddath's failure to be more specific, on the inventory, about the rug's manufacturer or style--which appears to have been oriental--does not establish that the claimed rug was not tendered to the carrier. The Claims Group further noted that it would be unreasonable for the member to have kept a sales receipt for a rug bought 13 years earlier. 1 74069/ I

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