Brandon v Osborne Garrett & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1924
CourtKing's Bench Division
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34 cases
  • Coleman and MacDonald v Smith
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 24 September 1979
    ...position so created was well within the rule in The Bywell Castle (1879) 4 P.D. 219. (C.1.), or for that matter the situation in Brandon v. Osborn Garrett & Co. [1924] 1 K.B. 548 15 The appellant, the second defendant, had created by his negligence a position of extreme danger far the on-co......
  • Frank Coleman v Donald McDonald and Carol Smyth
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • Invalid date
  • Trebor Bassett Holdings Ltd and Another v Adt Fire and Security Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 22 July 2011
    ...claimants' conduct which could be described as a panic or reflex reaction, will not amount to a novus actus: see, for example, Brandon v Osborne Garrett Co Limited [1924] 1 KB 548. The same principle applies to the acts of rescuers: see Cutler v United Dairies (London) Limited [1933] 2KB ......
  • Knightley v Johns
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 1981
    ...and probable consequence of the defendants' act, and (2) whether the plaintiff has been guilty of contributory negligence": Brandon v. Osborne Garrett & Company 1924 1 KB 548, 555. Following that decision Mr. Justice Finlay answered both those questions in favour of a policeman who was inj......
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