Case Name: Lily F. Foster, Respondent, v. G. C. Taylor, as President of the American Express Company, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1916-03-03
Citations: 171 A.D. 511
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lily F. Foster, Respondent, v. G. C. Taylor, as President of the American Express Company, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 171
Pages: 511–513

Head Matter:
Lily F. Foster, Respondent, v. G. C. Taylor, as President of the American Express Company, Appellant.
Second Department,
March 3, 1916.
Carriers — express receipt limiting liability—acceptance by agent of
shipper.
A shipper of goods by express 'is bound by the receipt tendered to and received by her agent limiting the carrier’s liability for damages to the sum of fifty dollars.
Putnam, J., dissented, with opinion.
Appeal by the defendant, G-. C. Taylor, as president, from a judgment of the1 Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Dutchess on the 26th day of April, 1915, upon the verdict of a jury for $243, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 8th day of May, 1915, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
Frank Hasbrouck, for the appellant.
Morschauser & Mack, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The plaintiff was bound by the special contract tendered to and received by her agent. (Mills v. Weir, 82 App. Div. 396; Knapp v. Wells, Fargo & Co., 134 id. 712; Noonan v. Wells-Fargo & Co., 68 Misc. Rep. 322.) Her recovery for damages was limited under the circumstances of this case to the sum of fifty dollars. The judgment is modified by reducing the amount of the recovery to the sum of fifty dollars and costs, and as so modified the judgment and order are affirmed, without costs of this appeal.
Carr, Stapleton, Mills and Rich, JJ., concurred; Putnam, J., read for affirmance.