Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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NICHOLS v. EARNELL, SONS & POCOCK.

(1940) 67 Ll.L.Rep. 583

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Macnaghten.

Negligent navigation - Tug - Death of lighterman by drowning-Manoeuvres by defendants' tug (towing barges) to take barge No. 13 in tow down Bow Creek, River Thames- Contact between barge in tow and barge No. 13, resulting in lighterman overbalancing from No. 13 and falling into water-Claim by widow against tugowners-Alleged negligence of tug- Res ipsa loquitur.

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