carrier for hire

carrier for hire
Either a private or a common carrier receiving or charging compensation in some form for transportation. Huron Portland Cement Co. v Woodworth (DC Mich) 19 F2d 530. Under an exclusion clause in an automobile liability policy prohibiting the carrying of passengers for a consideration, a few cases have held that the word "Passenger as so used includes only passengers transported by a public carrier, but more cases have held to the contrary. Myers v Ocean Acci. & Guarantee Corp. (CA4 NC) 99 F2d 485. Where the arrangement for compensation under which the person is carrying his passengers is more than a reimbursement for the gas and oil used by all in common on the trip, but goes to the additional extent of compensating him for the use of the car, he is carrying passengers for hire. Gross v Kubel, 315 Pa 396, 172 A 649, 95 ALR 146.

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