A friend drove the owner’s car from Birkenhead to Monte Carlo, carrying with him a suitcase belonging to the car owner, so that the two of them could go on holiday with the car in Switzerland. The basis of the finding of vicarious liability on the part of the car owner for the friend’s negligent driving was that the friend was driving the car partly for the owner’s purposes.
Denning LJ said: ‘The owner only escapes liability when he lends it or hires it to a third person to be used for purposes in which the owner has no interest or concern’.
Denning LJ
[1953] 1 WLR 1120, [1953] 2 All ER 753
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal from – Ormrod v Crosville Motor Services Ltd QBD 1953
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Cited by:
Cited – Launchbury v Morgans HL 9-May-1972
The owner of a car appealed against a ruling that she was responsible for injury suffered by the three respondents who had been passengers in the car when it crashed. The owner had not been with them. The care was driven by her husband with her . .
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Vicarious Liability
Updated: 09 November 2021; Ref: scu.278324