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…The only question remaining in my mind as regards liability is what was the true effect of those findings?…

…To that extent only would I allow the appeal as regards liability.…

…The appellant at first filed a defence denying liability to the respondent but when the case came up for hearing before the High Court (Aganyanya, J) on the 20th February, 1989, a consent order was entered and the terms of…

…that order were that judgment on liability was entered for the respondent and four medical reports were put in evidence without calling the doctors who had made them.…

…In our opinion, there is no legal liability on the respondent to pay any damages beyond this.…

…particular instance, not only the particulars had already been supplied when the order dismissing the plaintiff’s suit was made, the defendant had also filed its defence about three months previously which was merely a denial of liability…

…in working order it should have been returned to the plaintiff immediately instead of keeping it for more than two years, and then returning it after having it repaired which was an acceptance of both the obligation and liability…

…in working order it should have been returned to the plaintiff immediately instead of keeping it for more than two years, and then returning it after having it repaired which was an acceptance of both the obligation and liability…

…Entries in a book of account regularly kept in the course of business are admissible for matters which the court has to inquire but such statements alone are not sufficient evidence to charge a person with liability. 6.…

…of account regularly kept in the course of business are admissible wherever they refer to a matter into which the Court has to inquire, but such statements shall not alone be sufficient evidence to charge any person with liability…

…In Halsbury Laws of England, Third Edition Volume 38 at page 767 paragraph 1270, it is stated with regard to the liability of a person in the category of the second defendant as follows: “ The governor of a prison is protected…

…So the case has, so far as this issue of liability is concerned, to be determined fairly and squarely within the law of principal and agent, and as to whether the acts of the agent are such as to bind the principal. 11.…

…In the instant case no question has arisen as to the personal liability of Shakeel, as agent for his father, neither did the appellants choose to sue him, either cumulatively or in the alternative, for damages being such…