Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 84 · Decided 16 April 1979
Concord of India Insurance CO. L1D. v. Nirmala Devi and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 84 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 694
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5228/1977
- Decided
- 16 April 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Limitation Act Section 5
Headnote
Negligence of Counsel which misleads a litigant into delayed pursuit of his.­ remedy-Propriety ·and reasonableness of cofnpanies and other persons re- lying upon legal opinion in the niatter of co1nputation of liniitation--Lirni-· tation Act, 1963 (Act XXXVl) Section 5. Need for in the· case of automobile, accidents and the processual 1nodalities which secure· redressal of grievances, explained. , A doctor and his brother riding a motor cycle were hit by a jeep driver· ..,, and both \\'ere killed in November 1971, but the Motor Accident claims
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