Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 40 · Decided 8 February 1966
Sitaram Motilal Kalal v. Santanuprasad Jaishankar Bhatt
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 40 · [1966] 3 S.C.R. 527
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 615/1963
- Decided
- 8 February 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 96(1)
Headnote
Tort-Vicarious liability. The owner of a vehicle entrusted it to A for plying as a taxi. A drove the taxi, collected the fares, met the expenditure and handed the balance with accounts to the owner. B who used to clean the taxi was either employed by the owner or on ht. behalf by A wanted another to assist him in dr;ving the I.Xi he trained B to drive the vehicle and took B for obtaining a licence for driving. While taking the test B caused bodily injury to the respondent. At the time of the accident, A was not present !n the vehicle. On the question whether the owner waa
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