Parker v South Eastern Rly Co

Parker v South Eastern Railway [1877] 2 CPD 416 is a famous English contract law case on exclusion clauses where the court held that an individual cannot escape a contractual term by failing to read the contract but that a party wanting to rely on an exclusion clause must take reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the customer. == Facts == Mr Parker left a bag in the cloakroom of Charing Cross railway station, run by the South Eastern Railway Company.

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