WHEN TAXIS COMMIT BREACH OF CONTRACT
-Press Association
By Telegr~ph-
WELLINGTON, May 7. When a taxi company accepted a call for a cab by telephone, in the present instance for the caller to cateh a train, and a cab failed to arrive at the given address, the company was guilty of a breach of contract. This was the ruling of 1 Mr. A. A. McLachlan, S.M., in a case in which damages were cla'imed from Grey Cabs, Ltd., for a breach of contract. The plaintiff in the case had missed the Napier express, but had obtained seats for his party in a service par later in the day. The magistrate said that as long as taxis possessed a semi-monopoly privilege, every effort should be made to lsectify a breach of contract. The fact that a driver had taken another fare by a genuine : mistake did not alter the fact that there had been a breach of contract. He allowed damages of £4 i for the losses incurred by plaintiff : through missing the train and aaving to buy service car tickets. ; Plaintiff was also ' awarded costs. i
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 May 1947, Page 5
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