Farr v Butters Brothers & Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1932
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Parimala a/p Muthusamy and Others v Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 Enero 1997
  • Pearson Education Ltd v The Charter Partnership Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
    ...actual discovery of the defect has the effect of negativing a duty of care or of breaking the chain of causation (compare Farr v. Butters Brothers & Co. [1932] 2 K.B. 606 with Denny v. Supplies & Transport Co. Ltd. [1950] 2 K.B. 374). But there can be no doubt that, whatever the rationale......
  • McTear v Imperial Tobacco Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session (Outer House)
    • 31 Mayo 2005
    ...the defect which ultimately caused the damage: Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd[1936] A.C. 85, Farr v Butters Brothers & Co[1932] 2 K.B. 606.' Lord Jauncey said (pp 494, 495) that two matters emerged clearly from Lord Atkin's speech in Donoghue v Stevenson, one of which was 'that the d......
  • Lupton (HM Inspector of Taxes) v F.A. & A.B. Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 21 Octubre 1971
    ...[1932] A.C. 562 appeared to establish a far wider proposition of law than was evident after it had been distinguished inFarr v. Butters [1932] 2 K.B. 606, albeit the former was a decision of this House and the latter of the Court of Appeal. The material facts of an earlier decision which ha......
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