Competition arose between the unpaid vendors’ right of stopping in transit certain goods and a general lien created by a condition of the bill of lading against ‘the owners of such goods upon any account.’
Held, in construction of the contract, that the general lien was not preferred to the vendors’ right of stoppage in transitu. Opinions that ‘the owners’ meant the persons entitled to demand and demanding the goods.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor (Buckmaster), Lords Atkinson, Parker, Parmoor, and Wrenbury
Citations:
[1915] UKHL 504, 53 SLR 504
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Transport
Updated: 26 April 2022; Ref: scu.620694