Kimber v Gas Light and Coke Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1918
Date1918
CourtCourt of Appeal
    • This document is available in original version only for vLex customers

      View this document and try vLex for 7 days
    • TRY VLEX
23 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
    ...at 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 o......
  • 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 that ......
  • Commissioner for Railways (Nsw) v Cardy
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Request a trial to view additional results

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT