Supreme Court of India

Smt. Mallawwa Etc. v. The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. and Ors.

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Reported as [1998] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 152
Bench M.K. Mukherjee, G.T. Nanavati and B.N. Kirpal JJ.
Decided 27 November 1998

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Motor Vehicles Act, 1939. S. 95(1) (b), proviso (ii)-Goods carriages-Carrying persons like goods owners, hirers or gratuitous passengers-Accident-Death of passenger­ Liability f'Jf insurer-Held, goods carriage cannot be considered as a passengelvehic/e on the basis of single use or use on some stray occasions­ For purpose of construing proviso (ii) the correct test to determine whether a passenger was carried for hire or reward would be whether there has been a systematic carrying of passengers- vehicle so used can only be said to be a vehicle in which passengers are carried for hire or

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