The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday May 22 1911

volver " should never have been sanctified with the it was taken that the necessity must have contt name of "verification." nued till the date of the Court sale If it was possible for the widow to pay off the debt at any UNSECURED LOAN BY HINDU WIDOW time before the sale the justification for the AND THE ESTATE. [...] In the course of a judgment dismissing the appeal Lord Atkinson said :- It may well be that though the relation between the taxicab-owner and his driver inter se be that of bailor and bailee the driver may still quoad third parties be treated as the agent of the prprietors authorized to ply for hire in the streets for reward to the latter ; and the proprietor be thereby rendered liable for th [...] The question arose whether in taking accounts btween the Plaintiff and the company under the agreement which did not expressly provide for payment of professional services rendered by the directors of the company the solicitor's costs and the auctioneer's and agent's commissions that were paid should be charged against the Plaintiff. [...] and "If not was it reasonably necessary in the circumstances ?.." The jury answered the first question in the negative and the second in the affirmative and the County Court Judge held that the second question was the right one and entered judgment for the Defendant. [...] The Subordinate Judge in concurrence with the original Court found that the rent for recovery whereof the suit was brought was not due to the landlords that the rent had been duly paid by the Plaintiffs from 1308 to 13r3 and that therefore the rent suit and the execution prceedings must be deemed to be fraudulent and colusive The Subordinate Judge also found that the holding was not tra