Dunwoody v. Saunders

Citations

• 50 Fla. 202

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the owners of a barge place thereon a master, who was charged by them to have the barge loaded in a certain way and the Iosb was occasioned by the manner of loading, the bailees are not liable for the loss under -the ordinary te'rms of bailment.</p> <p>2. Instructions should be confined to the issues raised by the pleadings.</p> <p>3. It is error to charge that a general agent has no authority to enlarge the usual contract of bailment so as to make his principal an insurer of .the thing bailed during the term, if the thing be needed for his principal’s business and can be had on no other conditions.</p>