LETTING AND TIIRINO HORSES. JIl 



for all injuries rosultiiig from Iho careless and 

 neg'ligont driving of the conveyance, although 

 under the control and in the possession of the 

 liircr (c) ; but if the hirer choose to drive himself, 

 or if lie appoints the coachman or supplies the 

 horses, the owner of the carriage cannot be re- 

 sponsible for the negligence or want of skill of the 

 coaclimau (/). 



Speaking generally, where the owner and letter 

 supplies the servant to ride or drive the horses, 

 all the hirer has to do is to see that no injury 

 is done by himself or friends to the inside of 

 the carriage, assuming the whole turn-out to be 

 hired. lie is not answerable for damage done 

 by the negligence of the jobmaster or letter's 

 servants. Quannan v. Burnett {g) is a leading Quarman 

 case on this point : there two ladies, ha%'ing a ^ ' ^"''"^'^^ 

 carriage of then- ovra, hired a pair of horses 

 from a jobmaster, who also supplied the driver. 

 The ladies were in the habit of gi^•ing the di'iver 

 a present every day, and provided him with a 

 livery hat and coat to drive out in. These last he 

 was accustomed to leave at the ladies' house. After 

 driving them for three years without any acci- 

 dent, one day, as the driver was taking off the livery 

 coat in the haU of the house, the horses started 



(e) Laugher v. Pointer, 5 B. & C. 547. 



(/) Croft V. Alison, 1 B. & Aid. 590 ; HaU v. Pichard, 

 3 Camp. 187. 

 {{!) G M. & W. 507. 



