United States Second Circuit

Secondary carrier is not directly liable for damaged goods because it is the undisclosed principal of its agent, the primary carrier, and entitled to contractual liability limitation identical to those in the primary contract.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/30/2000
• Decided 12/06/2000
• Published 12/08/2000

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before PARKER, STRAUB, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David T. Maloof,Maloof & Browne LLP (Lawrence C. Browne, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Fredric S. Newman, Hoguet Newman & Regal, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Skyway Freight Systems, Inc., Mark S. Susina, Adler Murphy & McQuillen, Chicago, IL (Michael G. McQuillen and Paula LoMonaco, Adler Murphy & McQuillen, Chicago, IL;  and Paul A. Lange, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee American International Airways, Inc., Charles E. Schmidt, Kennedy Lillis Schmidt & English (Matthew T. Loesberg, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee U.S. Airways, Inc., David deAndrade, Law Offices of Scott A. Felcher, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee United Airlines, Inc.