Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 328 · Decided 11 April 2018
SMT. Suvarnamma & ANR. v. United India Insurance Company LTD. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 328 · [2018] 3 S.C.R. 1022
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3734/2018
- Decided
- 11 April 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 279, 304(A); Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988: Compensation - Claim for - For fatal accident - Award of compensation by Claims Tribunal, holding the owner of the offending vehicle and the insurance company jointly and severally liable - Appeal by insurance company - the award absolving the insurance company from liability - On appeal, held: In the facts of the present case, the conclusion of the Tribunal was a possible view, which could not have been reversed by High Court by merely making sweeping observations in a casual manner without there being
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