Kimber v Gas Light and Coke Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Date1918
Year1918

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22 cases
  • Ng Shin Hon v Chow Wai Chuang
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 12 September 1967
    ...unlighted at night. A visitor ran into them in the dark. The contractor was held liable for negligence. In Kimber v Gas Light & Coke Co [1918] 1 KB 439 the gas company when putting gas into a private house made a hole in the floor and failed to warn a visitor of the danger. They were held l......
  • Hawkins v Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 December 1953
    ...night by means of a red lamp. That is indeed how Lord Justice Scranton regarded it in ( Kimber v. Gas Light & Poke Company 1918, 1 King's Bench, at page 447). It seems to me that the real significance of an act of commission is that it means that the occupier must have actual knowledge ......
  • Billings (A. C.) & Sons Ltd v Riden
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 26 July 1956
    ...made a hole in the floor and failed to warn a visitor of the danger. They were held liable for the injury which resulted; see Kimber v. Gas Light & Coke Co., 1918 1 King's Bench, 499. Those cases were all before Donoghue v. Stevenson. She later cases are reinforced by the authority of t......
  • Buckland v Guildford Gas Light and Coke Company
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • Invalid date
    ... ... It may be useful to mention certain cases which have been decided in different circumstances. In Kimber v. The Gas Light & Coke Co. F26 , there was no suggestion that the plaintiff was a trespasser, and Scrutton L.J. spoke of the duty of a person doing work on private premises to carry on his work with due precautions for the safety of those whom he knows or ought reasonably to know may be lawfully ... ...
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