Chap. 62.—An ACT to amend, revive, and re-enact section 1295 of the Code
of Virginia, edition of 1887, in relation to the Hability of common carriers
for loss or injury to goods.

Approved February 28, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twelve hundred and ninety-five of the Code of Virginia, edition of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-seven, be revived, amended, and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

$1295. Liability of carrier for loss or injury to goods. —When a com-
mon carrier, which selects the carrier or carriers in the line or route to
destination beyond its own lines, accepts for transportation anything di-
rected to a point of destination beyond the terminus of his own line or
route, he shall be deemed thereby to assume an obligation for its safe car-
riage to such point of destination, unless loss or damage to such thing shall
occur on a water line or route in the connecting line from some cause
which now exempts a water carrier from liability, unless, at the time of
such acceptance, such carrier be released or exempted from such liability
by contract, in writing, signed by the owner or his agent, in which con-
tract, in writing, shall be distinctly set forth the place on his own line at
which a delivery is to be made to a connecting carrier, the true and full
names, in their order, of the carrier or carriers to which the initial carrier
proposes to delivery or cause to be delivered said goods for transportat on,
the names of the places at which each carrier is to receive and deliver
said goods, together with the amount of freight to be received by each
carrier over which said goods are to be transported ; and, although there be
such contract, in writing, if such thing be lost or injured, such common
carrier shall himself be liable therefor, uniess, within a reasonable time
after demand made, he shall give satisfactory proof to the consignor that
the logs or injury did not occur while the thing was in his charge.