Deen v Davies

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1935
CourtCourt of Appeal
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14 cases
  • Gibb v Comerford
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 1 January 1942
    ...reasonable care to prevent them from causing damage). Heath's Garage Ltd. v. HodgesELR [1916] 2 K. B. 370, followed; Deen v. DaviesELR [1935] 2 K. B. 282, and Pitcher v. MartinUNK[1937] 3 All E. R. 918, distinguished. A dog, alleged to be the property of the defendant, ran from the defendan......
  • Gomberg v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 22 January 1962
    ...the Defendant deliberately brought the dog on to the highway, he had a duty to take reasonable care to control it while it was there. In Dean v. Davies, 1935 2 King's Bench, 282, it was held that a person who brings an animal on to the highway must take reasonable care to prevent it from d......
  • Wormald v Cole
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 February 1954
    ...been only heedless or clumsy. But I take this to be an immaterial distinction. As was said by Lord justice Romer (as he then was) in Deen v. Davies, it would be strange if the owner of a horse which strays on the highway were to be free of liability if his horse kicked a passenger, but liab......
  • Brackenborough v Spalding Urban District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 15 December 1941
    ...J., Willes J., Keating J., who formed the Court in Cox v. Burbidge, 13 C.B.N.S. 430. Its limits are still uncertain. Romer L.J., in Deen v. Davies, 1935, 2 K.B. 282, regarded it as applying to animals depastured on land adjoining a highway. The Irish Court of Appeal in Howard v. Bergin, O'......
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