DCC 287/1997

Not to consider the maritime agent as a follower for the carriers in spite of delegating them in the port of loading or the port of discharge. The appellant company's responsibility upon the guarantee of the goods destruction after unloading the ship and depositing its stores shall be deemed personal responsibility pursuant to the provisions of Article 316 of the Civil Transactions Law. The appellant company shall be deemed responsible of the goods burning for being existed in its stores and under its guard and effective authority in spite of her claim that it is a maritime agent, did not have actual control over the thing itself at the time of injury.

Pursuant to the perusal of the documents and the reading of the report prepared by the Judge "…………..", and after the hearing of defense and deliberation,

Whereas the cassation has fulfilled all formal conditions, therefore, the cassation is admissible in form, and