CAMERON v. LONDON MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY.

(1936) 54 Ll.L.Rep. 95

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Branson.

Negligence-Personal injuries sustained by passenger in embarking on defendants' steamship-Ankle fractured in slipping from gangway to deck of ship-Gangway not more than 3 in. above deck level-Contention by plaintiff that defendants failed properly to light gangway or ship; that they failed to take reasonable care to provide sufficient staff to assist the passengers; and failed to warn her (plaintiff) where the gangway terminated so as to enable her safely to descend to the deck-Evidence of precautions taken by defendants and that during 1935 30,000 passengers had embarked without accident along this gangway at night, in all states of the tide, with the lights as they were at the time of the accident.