Peacock v Amusement Equip. Company Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1954
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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9 cases
  • Jenner v Allen West & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 10 March 1959
    ...defendants), on the strength of the generosity of the stepfather, as it is in this case, or the stepchildren, as it was in peacock v. Amusement Equipment Co., Ltd. In my view, that is not the right way of regarding the ohild's acquisition of a stepfather. Clearly, if the father had not died......
  • Byrne v Houlihan and Another
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 1 June 1966
    ... ... The wife's estate consisted of 1,376 shares in a private company and their value at the date of her death was agreed to have been ... Counsel for the plaintiff relied on Peacock v. Amusement Equipment Co. Ltd ... (20) ... In that case a husband had been ... ...
  • Hay v Hughes
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 October 1974
    ...of a railway disaster was not deductible from what would otherwise have been his proper entitlement to damages. And in Peacock -v- Amusement Equipment Co. Ltd. (1954 2 Q.B. 347) where the plaintiff did not benefit under the will of his deceased wife but his step-children (to whom his wife h......
  • Mead v Clarke Chapman & Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 5 December 1955
    ...371, 372 and 373. I do not read it, for it is sufficient for my purpose to refer to a case in this court quite recently, Peacock v. Amusement Equipment Co. Ltd., 1954 2 Queen's Bench, page 347. In that case the question arose as to the measure of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act. There......
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