DRIVER BEARS ACCIDENT DAMAGES A company
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going a result of an insurance comny
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In describing it as a very unfortunate case. Judge C. T. B. Leigh awarded payment to be made at 10s. a month.
The driver was ordered to pay an agreed figure plus costs amounting to £123 6s. 2d., following an action arising from an accident on February 13, 1961, in which a B.R.S. vehicle was said to A24 have suffered damage amounting to £115 2s. 2d.
In B.R.S. (Contracts) Ltd. v. Chewer! and Sykes ii was said that Mr. Eric Sykes was driving a lorry owned by Mr. Harold Chewen, on his employer's business, at the time-of the accident. His employer was insured by a company which had since gone into liquidation and his employer, it was said, could not be traced although he was believed to be " somewhere in the north of England not very far from Manchester ".