Supreme Court of India
Sitaram Motilal Kalal v. Santanuprasad Jaishankar Bhatt
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that these documents were inadmissible against the owner.
Judgment, page 11
From the headnote
Tort-Vicarious liability. The owner of a vehicle entrusted it to for plying as a taxi. drove the taxi, collected the fares, met the expenditure and handed the balance with accounts to the owner. who used to clean the taxi was either employed by the owner or on ht. behalf by . Presumably because wanted another to assist him in dr;ving the I.Xi he trained to drive the vehicle and took for obtaining a licence for driving. While taking the test caused bodily injury to the respondent. At the time of the accident, was not present !n the vehicle. On the question whether the owner waa liable, HELD :
Where later benches applied it
- 2008 Machindranath Kernath Kasar v. D.S. Mylarappa & Ors.
- 1996 Sohan Lal Passi v. P. Sesh Reddy and Others
- 1995 State of Maharashtra and Ors. v. Kanchanmala Vijasing Shirke and Ors.
- 1977 Pushpabai Purshottam Udeshi & Ors. v. Ranjit Ginning & Pressing Co, (p) Ltd. & Anr.
Of those, 4 mentioned
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