This is a suit by a consignee against a motor carrier for damage to freight as it was being unloaded from carrier's truck. The principal question is whether the carrier's strict liability as a qualified insurer under the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C., § 20(11), had terminated by tender to the consignee for unloading before the damage was done. We hold that it had so terminated.
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