S.C.A. (FREIGHT) LTD. v. GIBSON

[1974] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 533

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Ackner

Insurance (Goods in transit) - Policy against liability for damage to goods in transit issued to carrier - Books to be carried from Rome to Manchester - Books to be loaded on two lorries at Ciampino, near Rome - One lorry fully loaded and loading of other lorry not completed - Intention of drivers to start next day - Joy ride with full lorry to centre of Rome embarked on instead - Lorry overturned and books damaged - Whether transit had begun - Whether books had ceased to be in transit - Whether books "temporarily housed in lorry in normal course of transit" - Lloyd's Goods in Transit (C.M.R) form of policy. Insurance - Construction of policy - Intention of parties.