Court Opinion

ID: 9857003
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 07:10:45.370896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:37:49.517377
License: Public Domain

CARTER, J.,
concurring.—I agree with the result reached in the majority opinion for the reasons expressed by Mr. Justice Ashburn, pro tern., of the Second Appellate District, Division Three (Hischemoeller v. National Ice & Cold Storage, (Cal.App.) 284 P.2d 81). In so doing, I expressly withhold any approval of the majority opinion in George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co., 33 Cal.2d 834 [205 P.2d 1037]. I pointed out in my dissent in the George case that plaintiffs there received their warehouse receipt which contained the limitation on liability notice over a month from the time the contract of bailment became effective; that the warehouse receipt subsequently received by plaintiffs modified the original contract of bailment; that such modification was void and ineffectual because unsupported by consideration. The George case is not, and should not be, authority for the case under consideration since here plaintiff’s predecessors in interest received “Memorandum Acknowledgments’ ’ at the time of the bailment. These documents contained a notification that the peppers were accepted subject to limited liability on the part of the bailee as provided for in the rules and regulations on file with the Railroad Commission. There was no attempt here to alter, or modify, the original contract of bailment.