INSURANCE VOIDED

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1935, Page 7

INSURANCE VOIDED

“PRIVATE” CAR USED ON BUSINESS. RULING OF SUPREME COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Sept. 2. Expressing the opinion that the word “private” used in a motor insurance company’s policy did not cover the use of an assured person’s car if that use was for the benefit of the business of another person, Mr. Justice Smith, in a reserved judgment delivered to-day on a case stated for 'his ruling, held that Agnes Carroll, widow and executrix of Frank Milton Carroll, of Taumarunui, builder, was not entitled to recover from the N.I.M.U. Insurance Company. The action was a sequel to a fatal collision with a train at Ohakune. The judge.found that at the time, of the accident the car was being driven by an assured person, but was being used primarily and substantially for the purposes of the Hayward Timber Company, Ltd., of which he was general manager.