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UNUSUAL TYPES OF CARS SEEN IN NEW YORK.
the two
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Alave-Motorists in New York's, City, Long Island. They have no Central Park got a shock when chassis frames, spring nor axles, grotesque automobiles The motors are mounted in the shown in the foreground joined rear and Incorporate the trans. the day's traffic. They're four mission. cylinder, aeroplane-type በቤ Lower left-Thla weird-looking, stream-lined for speed, and were three-wheeled car, with the en- built by Capt. James V. Martin, gine mounted in the rear and the noted aeroplane designer of Garden door in front ія опо of twoj
THIRD PARTIES AND THE LAW.
An Owner's Responsibility for Strangers' Interference.
friends when driving his car. and for damage done by his servnila,
radically new types of four-cylin¡ whether this car is coming ur der automobiles designed by Capt. going! With the streamlinen of James V. Martin, aeroplane bailder. an aeroplane, this four-cylinder ma- This machine is said to be cap-chine la the creation of Capt. V. Marin, aeroplane de- able of a 75-mile-an-hour speed James and to travel 85 miles on a gallon signer, shown in the photo, The of gasoline. The unusual visibi- nutomobile will go 110 miles an lity which the driver is afforded is hour, its inventor claims, and can
feature of the car.
get 45 miles to the gallon.
The Lower Right--It's hard to know motor is in the rear,
would
in getting the lorry going and as that any reasonable man a rosult injured the plaintiff, who have anticipated it. There was no brought the action against the evidence that anything of the kind owners of the lorry.
had happened before. It was, he added, not the case in which the intervention of a child had caused the accident.
the
Counsel submitted that a person who was the owner of a thing which might cause injury to the public must take precautions to
From his paragraph of the Judg He see that it did not do 80. In two previous articles in these but it was evident that he had must be assumed to know
ment I think we may draw that columns of The Morris Owner I been playing with this and that, among the public were malicious conclusion and answer to the ques- have dealt with the questions, af for the sidelights, which were und mischievous persons, and he tion of when a man will be held the liabilities of the owner of a turned off when it was left; werel must take care not to alford such responsible for damage which has car for damage done by his turned on when the car was found. į persons the cans of causing resulted owing to the intervention
damage. In Portsmouth (where Moral Insanity.
of a third party. It is when lic the accident happened), as
ought to have anticipated that and in this article I propose to take The boy, it seems, was suffering university town, there were always intervention and guarded against my render a step farther and deal from "moral insanity, which persons About ready to play it. Such as, in a seaside town, with the liability of the motorist rendered him more mischievous pranks.
where there are always children for damage which result from the than other children of his age."
In giving his judgment, Mr. about looking for mischief to get interference of some stranger of
Also it ought to be mentioned Justice Avory said that admittedly into, or a university town where third party.
that on a previous occasion the the accident would not have hap- people are on the look-out for People frequently express sur-car had run down Portland Place,pened but for the intervention of someone to play a prank on. prise when shown reports of cases and that probably explains why a the soldiers. Was that interven- Otherwise it would seem he should where the Court has held a man bloek of wood was placed under the tion of such a character that be in ű position to contest responsible for some damage which wheel.
reasonable man ought to have succesfully any action brought has arisen while his friends were
anticipated its happening? In against him for compensation for driving his car; has held him re them the owner of the wall Rought his opinion it was not right to say the damage done. sponsible, in fact, for the negligent to recover damages from the owner driving of his friend. Their asto- aishment. I imagine, will be in- creased - when they learn that a The County Court judge man may even be made liable to first tried the ease found that the compensate people who have sim car was left in an unsafe position tained a loss as a result of u and in such a condition that a third party or total stranger in-mischievous boy might have caused terfering with his car and causing the accident: that the accident the damage complained of. Yet was caused by the intervention of | much is the fact, as the following the boy, though it was impossiblej instance clearly shows.
The Parked Car.
So much for the facts, and upon
of the car.
who
to find out how he did it, and on these findings he held the owner of the car responsible for the damage. it had done. From this decision the owner appealed, but
the
The case I refer to (Martin v. Stanborough) was heard in 1924 and is reported at length in The previous decision was upheld. Timer Law Reports. Briefly the facts are theae: the defendant
A Notable Exception.
was the owner of a six-cylinder It must not be assumed, however, Buick, which was driven by his that the Court will hold a man chauffeur. About one o'clock one responsible in every case where afternoon early in September he some third party has Interfored left the car standing on Marine with his ear and damage has Parade in Brighton, in charge of resulted. Against the case of the. the chauffour. Availing himself mischievous boy we have that f of the chance, the chauffeur went the interfering soldiers, where it off to get something to eat, but was sought to place responsibility before doing an made sure that on the ownor of a vehicle which the hand bruke Was properly had been interfered with and sat applied, and in addition placed in motion by some soldiers, but the block of wood under the near Court refused to hold the owner front wheel. In all probability, responsible. had no one interfered with it, he
In this case the defondanta were would have found the car safe and the owners of a Foden stearn lorry," sound and in exactly the
am which was in charge of one
position when he returned from their men. At the time
Was
of of the
his lunch at any rate, that what he contemplated
accident the lorry was standing outside a public house while the Actually, a small boy about ten man responsible and his
beer Inte
hours
years old climbed into the car and]panions were putube
com.
as a result of his mischievous the cellar of the tampering it ran backwards down While they were engaged on this Portland Place, crossed the pave- task a soldier climbed on to the ment and ran into a wall, the rear lorry and tried to start it. II
the wall wheels mounting
and was not, however, able to do this, breaking down about Aixteen feet but another soldier who was with of the railings. The Court could him climbed up and
by pulling not discover what the child did, threo different lovers did succeed
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