Airlines once excluded valuables from baggage liability while still carrying them

Evidence

Paragraph II of Rule IQ: Articles Accepted as Baggage: Baggage shall consist only on alow7earing apparel, non-liquid toilet articles and similar effects for actual use which are necessary and appropriate for the comfort and convenience of the passenger for the purposes of the journey and not intended for other persons or for sale. Money, jewelry, silverware, samples, negotiable paper, securities and similar valuable or business documents will be carried only at the risk of the passenger. … Except as provided in Paragraph T) below fot pertinent heg7 no participating carrier shall be liable for the lose of, or any damage to, or any delay in the delivery of, any property of the following types which is included in a passenger’s baggage, whether with or without the knowledge of the carriers fragile or perishable articles, money, jewelry, silverware, negotiable paper, securities, or other valuables, samples, or business documents; or for any other loss or damage of whatever nature resulting from any such loss, damage, or delay. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 4044

Categorization

• XREF: This echoes the produce-market and liability-limitation materials in ch25 and ch57 — where the carrier’s risk-allocation is written into the tariff/contract rather than left to tort. Compare the common-carrier insurer liability (ch57), now massively contracted by private tariff terms. — connects to: Interline ticket contracts legally fuse successive carriers into one operation — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 4088