Huggett v Miers

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1908
Date1908
CourtCourt of Appeal
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9 cases
  • Liverpool City Council v Irwin
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 31 March 1976
    ...primaeval separation of darkness from light and if he passes during the former must bring his own illumination. I think that the case of Huggett v. Miers [1908] 2 K.B. 278 was decided on this principle and possibly also Devine v. London Housing Society Ltd. [1950] 2 All E.R. 1173. But the......
  • Liverpool City Council v Irwin
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 July 1975
    ...his tenant to the tenant's visitor. The plaintiff thus recovered damages for his personal injury. 54 Fifteen years later this Court in Huggett v. Mires (1908) 2 K.B. 278, again a personal injury case, had to consider Miller v. Hancock. They distinguished the earlier decision on the facts. B......
  • Sleafer v Lambeth Borough Council, C.A.
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 2 July 1959
    ...to the extent to which that case still survives. He referred us to such cases as Hargroves & Co. V. Hartopp, 1905, 1 King's Bench, 472, Huggett V. Miers, 1908, 2 Kings Bench page 278, Lucy V. Bawden 1914, 2 Kings Bench page 318, Dunster V. Hollis, 1918 2 Kings Bench page 795, and Cockburn ......
  • Fairman v Perpetual Investment Building Society
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 3 November 1922
    ...its application is illustrated by the case of Cavalier v. Pope (1906, Appeal Cases, p. 428). 12The next authority in order of date is Huggett v. Myers (1908, 2 K.B., p. 278). The circumstances there were similar to those in Miller and Hancock, excepting that the accident was due to the sta......
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