Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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O'SULLIVAN AND ANOTHER v. CUNARD WHITE STAR, LTD.

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 183

LIVERPOOL ASSIZES.

Before Mr. Justice Sellers.

Negligence-Personal injuries sustained by shipwrights (O. and F.) engaged in repairs to lifeboat of steamship Sea Perch in dock-Fall of lifeboat from davits on to deck of steamship alongside -O. killed and F. seriously injured -Action brought by F. and by dependants of O. against owners of Sea Perch-Evidence that O. and F., having left the scene of their work at about noon, returned at about 1 40 p.m.; that the lifeboat fell shortly after they reentered it; and that release gear had in some way got into a position of danger -Onus of proof of negligence.

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