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…Thus, a master is not liable for negligence committed outside the scope of his employment.…

…That disobedience did not absolve the employer from liability, for the employee’s negligence.…

…It was contended that it was outside his knowledge that his injuries were attributable to the other driver’s negligence, and that he did not know the statutory period of limitation.…

…the personal injury so resulting; and (c) the fact that the personal injuries were attributable to the negligence, nuisance or breach of duty or the extent to which they were so attributable.…

…seeking damages both special and general for injuries sustained in an accident while at his place of work with the defendant and which accident occurred as a result of the breach of contract and duty to him and also due to negligence…

…denying the allegations in the plaint, denied that there was breach of duty or contract between them, denied that an accident occurred as alleged, that if any accident occurred which is denied then the same was occasioned by negligence…

…Mr Aboo’s further submission was that the respondent’s cause of action was for damages for negligence or breach of duty (the duty existing by virtue of a contract) and the damages he claimed for the negligence and or breach…

…or any such provision) where the damages by the plaintiff for the negligence, nuisance or breach of duty consist of or include damages in respect of personal injuries to any person.…

…part of the Defendant, or, if he relies on negligence, he must state the facts, which he alleges, constitute negligence.…

…As it stands, it neither alleges negligence in terms nor alleges facts which, if true, would of themselves constitute negligence; nor, if counsel for the plaintiff is right, would be bound at any time before the trial to…

…At the hearing of the suit the Plaintiff’s witnesses adduced evidence to the effect that c. the accident was due to the negligence of the 1st defendant who was the 2nd defendant’s servant. They were duly cross-examined.…

…The burden of proving that there was no negligence on the part of the driver was clearly his.…

……………DEFENDANT JUDGMENT The plaintiff filed this suit on 25/10/83 to recover damages for injuries she sustained in a road accident allegedly due to the defendant’s negligence.…

…Those circumstances give rise to the inference of negligence.…

…He expressly found that the respondent was not guilty of any contributory negligence.…

…He thus answered in specle the only allegation of negligence which were really particular to this case, as opposed to the generalities to which I have just referred.…

…Strangely enough, counsel for the respondent submitted that there was no negligence on the part of the Club.…

…The defendant’s failure to supply a helmet after evidence of the previous incident of attack is an act of continued negligence.…

…The defendants filed a defence in which they denied the negligence allegedly attributed to lst defendant and the particulars of it given in the plaint.…

…In the alternative they averred that the said accident was solely caused or substantially contributed to by the negligence f the plaintiff’s servant and / or agent for which the plaintiff was vicariously liable.…

…On account of this, he held him liable in negligence.…

…In holding the appellant liable in negligence, the learned judge did not, in the circumstances of this accident, even consider what course of action he (appellant) would have taken to ascertain that it did not occur.…

…The plaintiff pleads that the accident was caused by negligence of the tractor driver, or matatu driver or the negligence of both drivers and has set out the acts of negligence of each of the two drivers in para 7 of the…

…The owner and driver of the matatu on the other hand, in their amended defence deny negligence and attribute the accident to the negligence of the owner and driver of the tractor.…

…The accident was therefore attributed to negligence on the part of the defendant’s driver.…

…A defence was delivered on behalf on the defendant admitting the occurrence of the accident and the death of the deceased but alleging that the said accident was caused by negligence on the part of the deceased.…

…Hence the issue now is to determine the degree of negligence of each driver. It is not in dispute that the lorry was driving downhill while the ambulance was going uphill.…

…In my view that is the only negligence that can be attributed to the driver of the ambulance otherwise this accident occurred due to the negligence of the lorry driver.…

…He said that although the delay was caused by an oversight on the part of the managing director of the appellant, this was not synonymous with deliberate negligence on his part.…

…That this act amounted to negligence on his part to warrant the dismissal of the application to set aside ex-parte judgment.…

…He brought this action against the Defendant claiming that the Defendant was negligent and that it was such negligence which occasioned the accident.…

…At first the Defendant denied liability for the negligence but on the 30th October, 1991, the parties agreed that the Plaintiff was himself 10% negligent while the Defendant was 90% negligent.…

…There is an exception to this section in section 27 which provides: Section 27 (1)Section 4(2) does not afford a defence to an action founded on tort where:- a)the action is for damages for negligence, nuisance or breach…

…of duty (whether the duty exists by virtue of a contract or of a written law or independently of a contract or written law): and b)the damages claimed by the plaintiff for the negligence, nuisance or breach of duty consist…

…There is an allegation of negligence and collusion. The amount involved is collosal and the status quo should be maintained.…

…That sounded strange from a party accusing a bank of fraud and negligence. But it is of a piece with the amended plaint.…

…Both defendants denied negligence but the second defendant also pleaded the Limitation of Actions Act (cap 22).…

…There was not in all her evidence anything to suggest, much less prove, negligence on the part of the bus driver and I must dismiss her claim against the first defendant with costs.…