“…hing in Palmer on Bailment or in any principles of bailment which prevented recovery, and various dicta from the Master of the Rolls’ judgment in The Winkfield [1902] P 42 should not be read as preventing Ms Armstead as bailee relying on her contractual liability to Helphire as bailor as the quantum of recoverable loss in this ca…”
“… for consequential economic losses under the law of bailment. The history of the law of bailment was traced in the Attorney-General’s argument in The Winkfield [1902] P 42 by reference to the fifth lecture on the common law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It was suggested that the law had developed from remedies made available to t…”