Sword v Cameron

JurisdictionScotland
Date1839
Year1839
CourtCourt of Session
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3 cases
  • Wilsons and Clyde Coal Company v English
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 19 July 1937
    ...provision of a reasonably safe system. That Lord Cranworth took this view, is clear from his comments on the earlier Scottish case of Sword v. Cameron (1839) 1 D. 493, in which a workman, employed in a stone quarry, recovered damages from his employers for injuries received on the explosion......
  • Nimmo (James) & Company v Connell
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 March 1924
    ...than for injuries caused by a defect in the machinery itself." And he refers in support of this latter proposition to the case of Sword v. Cameron (Sess. Cases 2, Series 493). He also refers to the judgment of Lord Wensleydale in Weems v. Mathieson, 4 Macqueen, 266�73, in which that most ......
  • Colfar v Coggins & Griffith (Liverpool) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 9 February 1945
    ... ... Lord Cranworth cited Sword v. Cameron (1839) 1 Sc. Sess. Cas. 2nd series 493; Lord Chancellor Chelmsford expressed the same view in Bartonshill Coal Co. v. McGuire (1858) 3 ... ...

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