Lowery v Walker

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1911
CourtHouse of Lords
Year1911
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35 cases
  • Addie (Robert) and Sons (Collieries) Ltd v Dumbreck
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 25 February 1929
    ...argument for the respondent that the cases of Cooke v. The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, 1909, Appeal Cases, p. 229. and of Lowery v. Walker, 1911, Appeal Cases, p. 10, showed that even towards trespassers the duty was higher than that which I have stated. In my opinion these ......
  • Coleshill v Manchester Corporation
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • Invalid date
  • British Railways Board v Herrington
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 December 1970
    ... ... injury was due to some wilful act of theowner of the land involving something worse than the absence of reasonable care"; and, referring to Lowery v. Walker (1910 1 King's Bench 173; 1911 Appeal Cases 10) he added: "In cases of that character there is a wilful or reckless disregard of ... ...
  • Videan v British Transport Commission
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 28 May 1963
    ...a remedy for negligence when otherwise he would have none. Notably in Cooke v. Great Western Railway, 1909 Appeal Cases, page 225, and Lowery v. Walker, 1911 Appeal Cases, page 10, where persons came on the land without any permission in fact, but were held, by a fiction, to be there by the......
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