Readhead v Midland Railway Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1865 |
| Date | 1865 |
| Court | Exchequer |
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33 cases
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O'Connor v British Transport Commn
... ... The type of handle was not in use on other railway vehicles. In the modern passenger coaches internal handles are not fitted ... to impose a sufficiently high standard of duty on the Railway Company as carriers for reward and had, in effort at least, associated or ... Justice Montague Smith in Read head -v- Midland Railway Co. (1868-9) 4 Queen's Bench Cases, page 379 ). This is a leading ... ...
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Young & Marten Ltd v McManus Childs Ltd
...circumstances reasonable. If authority be required for that proposition I find it in the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber in Readhead v. Midland Railway Co. L.R. 4 Q.B. 379 at page 392: "Warranties implied by law are for the most part founded on the presumed intention of the parties, and ......
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Midland Silicones Ltd v Scruttons Ltd
...of goods and the carriage of passengers, see the classic judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Readhead v. Midland Rly. Co. (1869) L.R. 4 Q.B. 379 at p. 48My Lords, it is said that, in stating this proposition, for once Homer nodded and that this great master of our commercial law—......
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Liverpool City Council v Irwin
...12 M. & W. 68: or a furnished house — Collins v. Hopkins (1923) 1 K.B. 617: or into the carriage of a passenger by railway,see Read head v. Midland Railway (1869) L.R. 4 Q.B. 379: or to enter on premises, see Francis v. Cockrell (1870) L.R. 5 Q.B. 501: or to buy a house in course of erectio......
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Tort law, risk, and technological innovation in England.
...Traffic Liability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 12 at 13. (35) See Part ID, below. (36) Readhead v Midland Railway Co (1869), LR 4 QB 379 at 384, Montague Smith (37) Ibid. (38) Ibid at 384-85. (39) Aston, supra note 10. (40) Forward v Pittard (1785), 1 TR 27, 99 ER 953, wher......