DAMAGE TO ROADS: LIABILITY FOR COMPENSATION
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ADECISION of interest to haulage contractors has been reported to the highways committee of Ross-shire County Council. The council brought an action against Messrs. Munro Brothers, rreillowners, Conon Bridge, and the case has been settled by the defendants agreeing to pay the council £40 damages, together with expenses of the court proceedings.
The case arose from the defendants causing damage to the roads in the county by the use of a traction engine, the wheels of which were fitted with spuds. The defendants contended that they were not liable for damages, on the ground that any liability was confined to a penalty for a breach of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and that no civil liability attached to them through their illegal use of their traction engine.
The Sheriff-substitute and the Sheriff Principal did not agree.