Can a plaintiff withdraw consent from a third party to use his car?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from N.P. vs. The Economical Insurance Group-000268/AABS, 2019 CanLII 94133 (ON LAT):
In Ferguson v. Royal Insurance, the arbitrator, having found that the plaintiff had given a third-party carte blanche the right to use his car, held that it was not open to the plaintiff to withdraw that consent because he did not fully appreciate what he was doing.[13]
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