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Court of Appeal

There can be little doubt that this action was a surprise both to the Cold Storage Company and to the son. Mr. Lister junior is now 33 and he has been employed by the company ever since he was 16. When he was 17 the directors asked him to take a driving test, and, after he had passed it, they asked him to drive the company's lorries. He has driven for them ever since, except when he was away on war service. The company have never suggested to him that he ought to insure himself. He took it for granted that he was fully covered by his employers. The managing director evidently thought the same. He was subpoenaed to give evidence on the son's behalf. He said that it never occurred to him that the company's motor drivers would be personally responsible: and he never suggested to them that they should cover themselves separately. The parties to this action are clearly of one mind about it, but the insurers think differently. They want the son to indemnify them out of his own pocket.