CHAPPELL v. A. E. SMITH & SONS, LTD., AND MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD.

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 92

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

Before Mr. Justice Sellers.

Negligence - Safe means of access - Breach of statutory duty - Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff dock labourer - Plaintiff, employed by first defendants, engaged in driving electric bogie at Birkenhead Docks, for loading of cargo into ship - Necessity to cross dock railway lines to reach part of cargo - Wheels of bogie caught in railway lines, resulting in plaintiff being crushed between bogie and railway truck - Action brought by plaintiff against employers and against dockowners (second defendants) - Obligation of employers and of dockowners - Alleged trap - Docks Regulations, 1934, Regulation 1.