Burgess v Northwich Local Board

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1880
CourtCommon Pleas Division
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5 cases
  • Valentine v Transport for London and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 December 2010
    ...what is now section 41(1) of the 1980 Act. Of the cases directly on the point he considered: R v Inhabitants of High Halden; 2 Burgess v Northwich Local Board; 3 Dublin United Tramways Ltd v Fitzgerald; 4 Burnside v Emerson; 5 Hereford and Worcester CC v Newman; 6 Haydon v Kent County Counc......
  • Burnside v Emerson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 3 July 1968
    ...rain, the existence of danger for a short time is no evidence of a failure to maintain, Mr. Justice Lindley said in 1880 in Burgess v. Nerthwich Local Board (6 Q.B.P. 264) at page 276: "An occasional flooding, even if it temporarily renders a highway impassable is not sufficient to sustain ......
  • Lillian Lawman (Married Woman) (Appellant (Plaintiff) v The Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the London Borough of Waltham Forest (Respondent
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 January 1980
    ...in such a state as to be safe and fit for ordinary traffic." 27 (That was under the Highway Act, 1835): Burgess v. Northwich Local Board 6 Q. B. D.. 264, 276. 28 It is a perfectly fair comment, made by Mr. Samuels, on those authorities first of all that there is nothing in what Blackburn, J......
  • District Committee of the Middle Ward of Lanark v Marshall
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 10 November 1896
    ...Peterhead Granite Polishing Co. v. Parochial Board of Peterhead, Jan. 24, 1880, 7 R. 536; Burgess v. Northwich Local Board, 1880, L. R., 6 Q. B. D. 264; Brierley Hill Local Board v. Pearsal, 1883, L. R., 11 Q. B. D. 735, and 1884, L. R., 9 App. Cas. 2 Northern District Committee of County C......
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