TATEM STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. v. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND SOUTH WALES SIEMENS STEEL ASSOCIATION (THIRD PARTIES).

(1942) 73 Ll L Rep 89

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Atkinson.

Dock authority-Negligence of stevedores- Damage to plaintiffs' steamship Monkleigh during unloading - Defendant railway company (dock authority at Swansea) employed to unload plaintiffs' ship of cargo of scrap iron- Damage to vessel discovered when discharge completed-Whether done in course of unloading or at some time previous-Evidence of method of discharge; of complaints made during discharge; and of damage actually seen to have occurred-Defence: that such damage was avoidable with care and did not occur during discharge.