DAMAGE TO TAXI-CAB.
VEHICLE OUT ON HIRE.
USER'S COSTLY NEGLIGENCE.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WHANGAREI, Tuesday.
Judgment for plaintiff for £162, with £29 lis costs, was given by Mr. F. H, Levien, S.M., in announcing his reserved decision in the case brought by Frank Anderson, taxi driver, Whangaroi, against Frank Hammond, bank clerk, Auckland. Plaintiff had hired his car to defendant and his party to go for short trips about the district, and while travelling homeward at TatiKiteroria the car ran off the road and w~:j severely damaged. After reviewing the evidence, the magistrate said the facts did not fit in with defendant's suggestion that the smash was a pure accident, and could not have been anticipated by a careful driver. Defendant had not used due care.
Again, there was the question as to whero the defendant had proposed to go in the car. The law said the hirer must not use the chattel for any purpose other than that for which it is hired. However, he preferred to give judgment on the safer grounds of negligence on the part of the defendant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 14
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183DAMAGE TO TAXI-CAB. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 14
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