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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 192

MOTORISTS IN THE COURTS.

Decisions of Importance and Interest.

As the number of motorists un torists "own electrically propelled the road continues to increase, so, vehicles, it is none the less re- it would seem, does the complexity freshing to find a taxpayer defent-' of the legal problems, with which [ing the taxgathorer, in the Courts, from time to time motorists are the more so because this type, of" brought into contact. All car taxgatherer is apt to be very obans. owners in these days of police apti- jeed with a sense of its own infalli- vity are well advised to take some- bility. Motorists who on other thing more than a passing interest grounds have been mulcted of ex- in overy phase of motoring law, cessive taxca by other county and the object of this article is to councils may take heart from this bring to the notice of the road decision and invoke again the us users some recent decisions of our sistance of the judiciary in curbing various Courts of Justice which the misplaced zeal of local taxation can fairly be described as of in- oficials. It must be recorded that terest to motorists.

the Court of Appeal did not agree [with Mr. Justice Clauson when the On Loan.. Let us commence our Investiga, matter was taken farther, but oven tions in the King's Bench Division that august tribunal was not un- of the High Court of Justice, where animnus in its decision, and it in Mr. Justice Shearman recently understood that the case at the dealt with t case which throws time of writing is well on its way some light on the legal liability of to the House of Lords. those generous motorists who oc casionally are bold enough to lend. their cars to a friend or to an em- ployee.

Number-Plates.

Descending from the High Court

to the Court of Summary Jurisdie- In the case which Mr. Justice tion we encounter, a decision of a Shearman considered,, the defen- bench of magistrates silling In dant motorist was the owner of a Surrey..

Morris-Cowley car and had lent it Stuce the passing into law of the to a second defendant, who was a Road Transport' Lighting Act trusted servant, for his personal legal conflict has been raging over use. Whilst the car was being so a certain provision which deals used it became involved in an ac. with the repeal of the then existing cident due, as the jury found, to lighting regulations. Is it or is it the negligence of the driver. The not necessary to illuminate uum- question injured person alleged that the ber-plates? That is owner of the car was liable for the which constitutes the bone of con- consequences of the acts of the tention, and, without expressing driver at the time of the necidont. (our own opinion on the matter, let The judge held that the journey us consider the decision of the during which the accident occurr-Chertsey Beach.

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A Legal Muddle.

ed was not on the muster's bus- ness, and that the master was for the nonce stranger.

After some argument it was de- His lordship went on to point cided by a majority that the regu- out that at the time of the accident lation requiring number-plates to the driver was not under the con: bo illuminated half an hour after trol of the owner of the car, he was sunset has not been repealed, and not employed to do the class of act a conviction was recorded against he was performing at the time, and a motorist charged with not lumi- in the result there was judgment hating his. identification plate.} for the owner with costa

The decision may or may not be) The principle underlying this correct, but as a matter of precau- decision is that if the owner of ation motorists would probably be ear lends it to an employee for a well advised to act as if the rogu- purpose totally unconnected with lation was still in force, and illumi- his employment, then he cannot be nate their number-plates at the held liable in damages for the customary hour. negligence of the driver.

At the same time it may be point- Taxpayer v. County Council, jed out, for the benefit of those bold Departing from the King's Dench mortals who may desire to test Division to the Chancery Division, the matter, for themselves, that a tis.pleasing to find that a motor jatipendiary magistrate at Man- taxpayer has at Just routed a chester has, decided (since the County Council and the Minister of Chertsey case) that the regulation Transport, to boot. It appears is in fact repealed, and number- that the Kent County Council de- plate ilumination is no longer a cided in its wisdom that a vehicle legal necessity.

driven by an electric motor is not However, since the above was! un electrically propelled vehicle, written, the Minister of Transport within the meaning of the Finance has issued a regulation which pur- Act 1926, if the electric. current is ports to clear up the dispute as to generated by a petrol motor actual- the illumination of number-plates, ly carried on the vehicle. The by. providing in effect that a num- difference in the classification of her-plate must be illuminated dur- the vehicle had a very material ing those hours when the other hearing on the amount of tax pay compulsury lights on a car must be able, as the rate of electrically pro-it.

pelled vehicles is considerably less There remains some doubt, how- han for petrol driven vehicles. ever, as to whether the rectifying Accordingly, the owner of the regulation is in itself valid, and vehicle in question refused to be the conflicting decisions referred daunted by a pontifical local auto in the article are accordingly of thority and brought an action in interest. the Chancery Division against the

Kent County Counell and the Mini-For all practical purposes we ster of Transport, asking for a de- may assume that the rear number- claration that the vehicle in quea-plate must not only be luminated lon was an electrically propelled after sunset, but that the Illumina- vehicle and should be taxed as

tion must be such that the entire auch.

length of the plate is legible a rea- Mr. Justice Clauson decided In sonable distance away. There has effect that as long as it was An been some recent pollee activity in electric motor which actually made this direction, and one must be the wheels go round, then the careful to guard against mud vehicle was propelled by electrici- splashes on the white portion of ty, even if the power was generat- the rear-lamp, which might con- ed by a potrol motor on the vehicle ceivably dim it sufficiently to itself. Although very few mo- offend the law.

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