2194-2205
CIVIL CODE
SECTION 2194-2205
2194. Unless the consignor accompanies the freight and retains
exclusive control thereof, an inland common carrier of property is
liable, from the time that he accepts until he relieves himself from
liability pursuant to Sections 2118 to 2122, for the loss or injury
thereof from any cause whatever, except:
1. An inherent defect, vice, or weakness, or a spontaneous action,
of the property itself;
2. The act of a public enemy of the United States, or of this
State;
3. The act of the law; or,
4. Any irresistible superhuman cause.
2195. A common carrier is liable, even in the cases excepted by the
last section, if his want of ordinary care exposes the property to
the cause of the loss.