Court Opinion

ID: 9653620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:50:07.046177+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:00.420084
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MANTON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The ticket purchased by the appellant was entitled in large bold type, “Cruise *705Contract”; below, and under the heading “Terms of Contract,” it stated: “The following stipulations are a part of this contract which must be signed by the passenger on the over page- immediately on its receipt.” This statement was also in large type. Twenty-one stipulations followed, and at the end thereof and just above the appellant’s signature was the phrase, “I have read and fully understand the above conditions of this contract.” Appellant’s signature was placed at the very end of the page.
A condition as to notice of injury, in order to be effective and binding, must be incorporated or embodied in the contract. The Leviathan, 72 F.(2d) 286 (C.C.A.2). In that case'we upheld a clause appearing on the face of the ticket which limited liability for damage to baggage. In Murray v. Cunard S. S. Co., 235 N. Y. 162, 139 N. E. 226, 26 A.L.R. 1371, a stipulation as to notice of injury was involved and it was held valid and binding. The contract contained provisions, similar to the ones here presented, making the “terms and conditions” a part of the contract; and, at the top of the contract, a printed notice was inserted stating: “The attention of the passengers is specifically directed to the terms and conditions of this contract.”
In the case at bar, there was not a mere notice on the back of the ticket referring to conditions limiting liability as in The Majestic, 166 U.S. 375, 17 S.Ct. 597, 41 L.Ed. 1039, and Bellocchio v. Italia Flotte, etc., Line, 84 F.(2d) 975 (C.C.A.2). Nor did the appellee merely insert a notice on the face of the contract, but placed on one side thereof, referring to the conditions outlined on the back of the agreement. Maibrunn v. Hamburg-American S. S. Co., 77 F.(2d) 304 (C.C.A.2). The contract is one and entire and the conditions were made a part thereof.
The appellant had this ticket in his possession at least two days before surrendering it. If he did not become familiar with its terms in that time, he assumed the risk of carelessness, inattention, or ignorance. Murray v. Cunard S. S. Co. supra. It is immaterial that the appellant did not sign the ticket until after the cruise began. His original duty to sign persisted and the terms of the contract did not thereby become any the less binding.
I dissent.