A Canadian woman recently prevailed in a court judgment against a major shipping company in a case regarding couriered horse semen for her mare.
As articles by the CBC and the National Post explain, Nova Scotia resident Chelsea McKendrick won a $740 judgment against international shipping giant FedEx in September.
In May of 2016, McKendrick utilized FedEx’s ‘priority overnight’ service to deliver the frozen semen from British Columbia to Nova Scotia. She had prepped a mare to be bred with the semen, but she became frantic when the semen didn’t arrive the next day (it had made it as far as Mississauga, Ont. at that point). The semen ended up arriving a day later. McKendrick tried to use the semen to impregnate her mare, but at that point the semen had lost its potency and failed to get the mare impregnated.
During court proceedings into the matter, a Federal Express manager stated that the company hadn’t technically been sticking to its ‘priority overnight’ guarantee since some time in 2015. According to the reports, the change appears somewhere in a large section of the company’s fine print which outlines terms and conditions.
FedEx was forced to pay McKendrick $740.36 in damages.
(With files from CBC and the National Post)