Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 355 · Decided 26 July 2000
Chimajirao Kanhojirao Shirke and ANR. v. Oriental Fire and General Insurance CO. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 355 · [2000] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 696
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1044/1992
- Decided
- 26 July 2000
- Bench
- AJAY PRAKASH MISRA, RUMA PAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Insurance: Motor Insurance Policy-Deceased owner of a truck died in an accident C involving his truck-Truck insured with the insurance company for Rs. JO Lakhs covering risks for unlimited personal injury and property-Parents of the deceased filed a suit/or recovery of Rs. 6,03,000 against the liability on the ground of the words unlimited personal injury having been typed by mistake- D Trial Court decreed the suit-High Court allowed the appeal observing that the word unlimited was with respect to the death and injury to the third party and insurer only-On appeal, Held : The stand of
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