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Bus-hire Firm Lose Action
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AN action for £160 by a Coatbridge bus-hiring firm against an Airdrie teacher who organized a school outing to Spain in 1963 has been dismissed by sheriffsub. J. M. Cowan, QC.
The Sum sought was the balance of a hiring fee of £360 for which the pursuers, Kerr and Smith, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, supplied a 41-seat bus to the teacher, Mr. George McDermott of Airdrie.
The pursuers claimed that the contract provided that they would pay the continental insurance of the coach, the wages of the drivers, and the cost of the fuel from Coatbridge to Dover, but that the cross-Channel ferry fares, the fuel costs on the Continent and the hotel and other expenses of the drivers would be paid by the teacher.
Sheriff Cowan found that the pursuers had failed to prove the contract existed between the parties and although the teacher had paid the continental expenses, it was a matter of convenience for both parties that he should do so.
"The defendant maintains that the agreement was that he should pay the continental expenses on behalf of the pursuers, whose responsibility they were", stated the sheriff in the judgment.