Lallan Prasad v. Rahmat Ali & Anr. 1967 SCR (2) 233 FACTS: The appellant advanced Rs. 20,000 to the first respondent against a promissory note and a ‘receipt. The first respondent executed an agreement whereby he agreed to pledge as security-for the debt aeroscapes, to deliver them to the appellant, and to keep them in…
Hyman & Wife v. Nye & Sons (1881) 6 QBD 685 (breach of implied warranty, hiring) Queen’s Bench Division, Lindley, J & Mathew, J. FACTS: The defendant was a job-master at Brighton, letting out carriages and horses for hire. The plaintiff hired of him a landau, and a pair of horses, and a driver, for a…
Morris v. C.W.Martin & Sons Ltd. [1966] 1 QB 716 (sub-bailment, theft or negligence of the staff) FACTS: The plaintiff took her mink stole to a furrior for cleaning. Sine he did not do cleaning, he subcontracted the fur to defendant on the current trade condition which provided that goods belonging to customers on the…
Coggs v. Bernard (1703) 2 Ld Raym 909 (hiring of labour or services without reward, duties owed by a bailee) FACTS: The defendant undertakes to remove goods from one cellar to another and there lay them down safely, and he managed them so negligently that for want of care in him some of the goods were…