POWELL v. DOCKS EXECUTIVE.

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 637

LEEDS ASSIZES.

Before Mr. Justice Pritchard.

Master and servant-Common employment -Directed labour - Safe system of working-Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff stevedore while unloading machinery from railway wagons in Middlesbrough dock - Negligence of railway company's servants in charge of shunting operations-Plaintiff allocated to railway company under Dock Labour Scheme-Whether plaintiff was the general employee of the National Dock Labour Corporation who was employed temporarily by railway company -Applicability of doctrine of common employment-Involuntary employment -Alleged failure by railway company to provide safe system of working - Whether plaintiff in common employment with railway company's servants in charge of shunting operations - Essential Work (Dock Labour) Orders, 1941 ([1941] S.R. & O., No. 1440) and 1943 ([1943] S.R. & O., No. 1114).