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United Kingdom subrogationcommon carrier liability

Hall & Long v The Railroad Companies

80 US (13 Wall) 367 (1871)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Year1871
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

An insurer who pays a total loss on goods destroyed by the fault of a common carrier is entitled, by subrogation, to recover what it has paid by suing the carrier in the name of the assured, the insurer being treated as standing in the shoes of the insured.

Area of Law

General

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