Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 472 · Decided 25 August 2004
National Insurance CO. LTD. v. V. Chinnamma and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 472 · [2004] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 898
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5428/2004
- Decided
- 25 August 2004
- Bench
- N. SANTOSH HEGDE, S.B. SINHA, A.K. MATHUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Leave Granted & Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 147(1), 2(14)
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: Section 147(1) (as amended by Act 54of1994)-Compensation-To a person in goods vehicle-As owner of the goods-Liability of Insurance companrHeld: Insurance company not liable to pay compensation to the owner of the goods when, being carried in a goods vehicle, the accident of Section 2(14) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. The deceased used to carry on business in vegetables and loaded some bags of the same in a trailer of a tractor and was travelling therein. The tractor was being driven at a very high speed as a result of which the deceased fell down and died. The
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