Supreme Court of India
Taj Mahal Hotel v. United India Insurance Company Ltd. & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
For the above reasons it is essent ial that common carriers must in India also be subject to the Engl ish common liability, and the Privy Council have now placed the matter beyond dispute.
Judgment, page 38
From the headnote
Consumer Protection – Vehicles of guests handed over to the hotels for valet parking – Liability of hotels in case of theft/loss – Bailor-bailee relationship under the Contract Act, if exists – Respondent no.2’s car parked under the valet parkin g of the appellant-hotel – Car driven away by another person– Resp ondent no.1 (insurer) settled the insurance claim by respondent no.2 – Both filed complaint against the appellant – Dismissed b y the State Commission on the locus standi o f the insurer – National Commission remanded the complaint back to the State Commission which allowed the
Authorities it was built on
- 1954 Manilal Mohanlal Shah and Others v. Sardar Sayed Ahmed Sayed Mahamad and Another
- 2000 Nath Bros. Exim International Ltd. v. Best Roadways Ltd.
- 2016 M/s Boorugu Mahadev & Sons & Anr. v. Sirigiri Narasing Rao & Ors.
- 2000 Oberai Forwarding Agency v. New India Assurance Co. Ltd. and Anr.
- 1983 N. R. Srinivasa Iyer v. New India Assurance Co., Ltd.
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