JAMESKUTTY JACOB Vs. UNITED INDIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Appeal is against the Judgment dated 17th Ocber, 1997.

(2.) Briefly stated the facts are as follows :

(3.) The Insurance Company filed an Appeal. It claimed that the Policy was an Act only policy on which no extra premium had been paid for making the liability unlimited. It was submitted that as the policy was an Act only policy the liability of the Insurance Company was limited Rs. 50,000/- only under 95(2)(b)(i) of the Mor Vehicles Act, 1939. The High Court accepted this contention and limited the liability of the Insurance Company a sum of Rs. 50,000/-.