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B-192785 1 (1978-10-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgmz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A V. I FiL.E: 5-192783 flAW: COT 11 eg MATTER DF: Cartwight VAR 2LIUs, .Inc. DIGEST: - Claemat has sufficient defense to Government's prima facte case of liability for packed'household goodswhere record cantatns eixdencs that articles were improperly packed by warehouseman, as agent for shipper, and evidence of reasonable care by carrier tua form of good condition of eternal cantainars when delivered at destination. - t (rturight Vaniines, Inc. (Cartwright), by latter of July 18, 1978, protests the action taken by our Claims Division in disallowing its claim fox $58.50. Thishaoun was deducted by the Govarnant, as saubgma, from -monias athurwisa.dun Carwright because of damage sustained to various airticles in a shipment of household effects bclanging to a member of the Air Force. -..'a household.effeicts were packed by Vedri Transfer and Storage eaderal), on Noyember'29, 1972, and placed In its warehouse for non- temporary szoraje at .Colarado Springs, Colorado. Cartwright pirked up the shipment from Fedaral'P, warehouse on ;May 31, 1973, and transported it on Government bill of lading No. 11-4659193 to the member's tesidence in Sacramento, Californ:ta, where damage was discovered.to 11 items. lThe item. are identified to Federal's descriptive inventory. There has been settlement on five of the damaed items; these are the six Items which ware the subj act of daductin and.th.carrier's - claim -Item No. 44 70 187 199 282 nature of Article Dl a flower pot holder smashed flower pots broken clock face btoken number missing chandelier bent 6 broken rpictisre framne t sLase broken coffee pot glass broken Amunt ClAimed $ 1.20 18.00 18.00 18.00 3.00 1.50. Cartyright declines liability and asserts that the articles verL improperly packed by Federal and that the containers arrived at destination in n undamaged condition. The carrier's claim was dis- aillmed on the alternative grounds that it failed to present evidence that the damaged articles were.improperly packed, and that even if they - p t TM CDWN TOLLUW UWNERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED afATES wdwibna aD fl.fl. RDOUSE I L I. p-i

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