Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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SOSTMAN v. SCRUTTONS MALTBY LTD. AND THOS. & JNO. BROCKLEBANK LTD.

[1974] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 379

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

Before Mr. Justice Milmo

Master and servant - Negligence - Shipping clerk leaving vessel's hold by ladder going up to deck - Chain attached to unsecured piece of machinery lying on deck - Chain was grasped to heave himself up - Machinery dragged into hold - Fall from ladder - Personal injuries suffered - Whether employers and owners of vessel negligent - Whether clerk guilty of contributory negligence.

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