Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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HAY v. MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD AND SAME v. SAME ("THE COUNTESS")

(1922) 13 Ll.L.Rep. 416

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Finlay, Lord Atkinson, Lord Sumner and Lord Phillimore.

Collision with Dock Gates-Detention of colliding Vessel by Dock Authority- Limitation of Liability-Claim by Barges for Rateable Proportion of their Damage out of limited Sum-Disposal of Amount in Court transferred to Credit of Limitation Action-Claim by Dock Owners for Damager in Priority- Effect of Private Acts and Merchant Shipping Acts.

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