...default of the shipper or owner. ***** "7. Except where the loss, damage or injury complained of is due to delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded...damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence, as conditions precedent to recovery, claims must be made in writing to the originating or delivering...

...including freight charges, if paid. " Except where the loss, damage, or injury complained of is due to damage while being loaded or unloaded, or damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence as conditions precedent to recovery, claims must be made in writing to this carrier at the point of...

...performed or called for by this contract shall be discharged from liability; provided, however, that if loss, damage, or injury complained of was due to delay or damage caused or contributed to by the carrier, or its employees, while being loaded or unloaded, or if damaged...

...shorter period than four months, and for the institution of suits than two years : Provided, however, That if the loss, damage, or injury complained of...precedent to recovery." Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from ninety days after its passage. Approved, March 4, 1915. In order to determine...

...proviso is obscure and ungrammatical. less than four months except in case of loss, damage or injury, "due to delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded,...damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence." • It is plain that loss or damage in transit which is not attributable to the carrier's negligence...

...at St. Louis, all claims would be deemed to have been waived, with the proviso, however, that: "If loss, damage, or injury complained of was due to delay or damage caused or contributed to by the carrier, or its employes, while being loaded or unloaded, or if damaged...

...conditions of which read, in part, as follows: "Except where the loss, damage, or injury complained of is due to delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded,...damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence, as conditions precedent to recovery, claims must be made in writing to the originating or delivering...

...entitled Bill of Lading Conditions: 'Except where the loss, damage, or injury complained of is due to the delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded, or damaged in transit by carelessness or negligence, as conditions precedent to recovery, claim must be made in writing of the originating or delivering...

...shorter period than four months, and for the institution of suits than two years ; provided, however, that if the loss, damage or injury complained of was...be required as a condition precedent to recovery." Onr interpretation of this amendment is that it prevents the carriers on interstate shipments from...

...an exception in the requirement of notice of loss "where the loss, damage or injury complained of is due to delay or damage while being loaded or unloaded, or damaged in transit by carelesness or negligence," losses or damages in transit are excepted from the requirement of notice....