agreement between the defendant and the third party which provides that:
"Such Insurance or the limits of such insurance shall not be construed to limit
Carrier's liability”. He argued that when asked in cross examination whether
this clause did not mean that the taking out of Insurance did not limit his
company's liability TPW1 initially replied 50/50 not exactly and then
subsequently said he did not know. He submitted that the clause is clear and
unambiguous and basically means that, whether insurance has been taken out
and whether the Insurance that has been taken out has a limit, such taking or
limits on such insurance could not in any way limit the Carrier's liability. This
means that whether or not the value of the goods had been declared or not,
whether or not Insurance had been taken out for the full replacement value of
the goods, this would not in any way limit the liability of the Third Party to
indemnify the Defendant for the full value of the goods.
Thirdly counsel submitted that given the contention in the evidence of the
third party witness that the Defendant should have advised the value of the
goods to help in the adjustment of the Insurance, counsel argued that in light
of the evidence adduced this was not tenable.
The company had taken out Insurance once covering a whole year (in a
different company's name). He did not indicate that every time he took out
goods whose value was over the single transit limit, he took out fresh
Insurance and again, he conceded that there was no way his customers could
know the prospective values of the goods they were to request him to carry for
him months in advance. However, most importantly to the extent that he
admitted that he was transporting goods over the transit threshold and yet
had not increased the cover, any time he did transport them, shows that his
contention that had he been advised of the value of the goods before hand, he
would have increased the level of cover, is not an argument that can be
sustained on the facts.
Learned counsel for the defendant submitted that the decided cases on the
subject of Indemnity are to the effect that for one to claim indemnity, the
subject matter in the suit must be the same subject in the third party
proceedings according to the case of Yafesi Walusimbi -vs- Attorney General
[1959] EA 223. The subject matter in the main suit is the same in the Third
Party proceedings. A third party claim must be based on a Contract express or
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