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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928.
MOTORISTS" AND
THE LAW,
The Borrowed Car.
RECENT IMPORTANT DECISIONS.
HEA LIGHT POBLEM.
Research Urged. Recognizing that headlamps and motor fuels offer a fold for further engineering improvement, tho
NEW FORD FEATURES.
No. 6. Engine Lubrication.
The Model A engine lubrication
National Automobile Chamber of system is an exclusive Ford Commerce voted recently to sup development, simple, positive and port further research by the more than adequate for all do- Society of Automotive Engineers,
CANADA ON A. A. A.
and joining with the American mands made upon the moving Two casos of importance to Mr. Justice Shearman, in hla Petroleum Instituto in continuing parts of the motor.
All parts of the engine are lubri motorists have been decided in the judgment, said that the cases where the fuel research of the United
cated from the oll reservoir in the High Court, and both deal with the servant did something for him-States Bureau of Standards,
self while on his master's business
oil pan by the Ford pump, splash liability of the various parties con- wera different from the case before"
and gravity food. The oil pump cerned after an accident in which him. In those cases, he said, the
is located in the bottom of the a borrowed car has been involved. servant began on his master's busi- ness, but in the present case the The facta in the first case were journey, though authorized by the Canade now fe represented on the oil pan and fa operated by a goar as follows: A contractor, G, emmaster, was, from the start, not on board of directors of the American on the camshaft. The pump is Automobile Association. Riley anclosed in a fine mosh wire acreon. ployed a number of vanmen in the the master's business.
Nitera course of his business, and among The learned judge also differen-Horn, president of the Montreal through which the oil them was one N. who was a friend tinted from the case before him Motorists' League, is the represen before it is pumped up into the of his employer as well as being those cases where the owner of a tative.
valvo chamber.
his trusted servant. In addition
car was present while an authorized
When the engine is running, the to his vans, G. owned a Morris person drove it for his own pur- When A lends an articlo to B, Cowley car which he kept for his poses but was still under the "con whether gratuitously or not, what oil flows into the valve chamber private use. He had on an occasion trol" of the owner. In such cuscas known in law as a contract of in a continuous stream, but it is in previous to the accident lent this the owner could at any moment bailment is created, and under this no sense a "forced" feed. Rather, pur to N for the latter's own pur-have revoked his authority or told contruct it is the duty of the borit is the full load of the pump pogen. On the evening of the the driver to drive slowly or stop, rower to take care of the article. accident ho again lont this car to
N. who was anxious to take some or the like.. friends of his to the theatre.
The Question of Control.
The degree of care the borrower being delivered in a smooth, flow- must exercise varies according asing stream. The oil is delivered the loan is for money or for to the valve chamber largely for Put shortly, the ability of an nothing, a much greater degree the purpose of providing direct G gave N the key of his garage and told him he might take out the owner of a car exists in the follow-being expected in the former than gravity feed lubrication to the car. While driving his friends ing cases when he is not driving in the latter case, but in each case home, N, owing to his negligent himself: driving, injured a pedestrian B, (1) When the driver is acting on who thereupon brought this action his behalf. against both N and G for damages. (2) When the driver is under his As N was a man of no substance, control. B'a only chance of obtaining com- (3) When the driver is the pensation was to obtain a judgment owner's servant driving in the against G, N's employer and friend. course of his employment or doing It was contended on behalf of B, the class of net ho was employed to the plaintiff, that as N was in the do.
bearings of the crankshaft. Incidentally it supplies lubrication for the valves, providing better to the front end camshaft bearing. and quieter action, and by gravity From the valve chamber small pipa
care must be exercised. Should the article be damaged or lost, the bur den of proof is on the borrower to show that it was lost or damag- ed through no negligence of his. Danger of Friendly Arrangement. openings lead down to the oran
In the case Inst mentioned, Mr. shaft main bearings,and oil flow- Justico Finlay, in giving Judgmenting down these by gravity pro- for the plaintiff, said that this was vides an abundance of lubricn Small, inbuilt dams in the general employment of G for the It must be remembered as re-jone of those unsatisfactory cases Lion purpose of driving motor cars, and gards (2) that a driver may be where people, well known to one bottom of the valve chamber pre- was at the time of the accident under the "control" of the owner another, made arrangements which vide reservoirs of oil for each driving with his authority, the fact from the legal point of view, even neither of them thought would over main bearing pipo oponing.
The engine rests in the chassis that the car was being used by Nif the owner is not present. For have to be discussed in a law court,
on a three-degree angle, sloping to entirely for his own pleasure did not instance, in one case, a car owner and, in consequence, such arrange-
the rear. The oil flows back, fill- release G from the ordinary in (A) frequently allowed B to drive ments were loose and informal.
This Inst case should be a bility of a master.
his (A's) car, and on one occasion, Servant Not on Master's Businesst when they had come back from aminder to those motorists who boring the reservoirs, continually, drive together, A get out of the car row and lend their cars thought and the overflow is carried by an A master is Hlable for the wrong-and allowed B to drive it back to lessly without, considering the external pipe down to the front ful acts of his servants when they B's house. An accident occurred, effects of a possible accident. Both end of the splash tray in the oll are either done on his behalf or are through B's negligence, while the cases, too, filustrate the absolute pan, where it flows buck over the done in the course, or are within car was outside B's house, and it necessity for motorists, who intend tray, filling the troughs through held that A could be made to lend their care, to insure them- which the connecting rod dippers the scope, of the servant's employ-was
selves against the consequences of pass, forcing oil into their lower ment. This will be the case even if Hable as principal.
In another case the plaintiff had accidents hannening during the bearings, and from which all to do something on hla own account, and in the course of so doing negli-gratuitously lent his car to the de-period of the lean. Such motorista other moving parts are sprayed by. sently injures someone, the master fundant and, while it was being should take care to see that the splash. will be liable. It is only when the driven by a friend of the defen-policy issued to them covers them servant disobeys orders to such an dont's, it collided with a refuge and not only in respect of injury to the extent that he cannot be considered was
TC-
The oil filter opening and the damaged. The plaintiff car but also in respect of third breather are on the left side of to bo on his master's business at brought an action against the de-party claims, no matter who is driv- the engine, as is also an oil in- proper level for oil in the oil pan. all that the master's liability will fendant and the driver for negil-ing the car or for whose purposes dfcator rod, marked to indicate the
it is being driven.-The Autocar. be extinguished.
gence.
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