Thrussell v Handyside

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1887
Date1887
CourtDivisional Court
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3 cases
  • Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd v Shatwell
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 July 1964
    ...by this House in Smith v. Baker & Sons [1891] A.C. 325. The opposing views were tersely stated by Hawkins J. in Thrussell v. Handyside 20 Q.B.D. 359—"his poverty, not his will, consented to incur the danger" (p. 364)—and by Lord Bramwell in Membery v. Great Western Railway Co. 14 App. Cas. ......
  • Colonial Steamship Company Ltd v SA Railways and Harbours
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...to incur a risk, Membrey v G. W. Railway (14 A.C. 179 at p. 187); The Gusty & The Daniel M, (1940, P. 159), Thrussel v Handyside & Co. (20 Q.B.D. 359 at p. 364). Further, this is no defence to breach of statutory duty. Wheeler v New Merton Board Mills Ltd. (1933 (2), K.B. 669), Bournaker Lt......
  • Cullen v Dublin United Tramways Company
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 1 December 1920
    ...Starkie, N. P. 493. (2) [1909] 2 I. R. 13. (3) 30 L. R. Ir. 725. (4) 20 L. R. Ir. 409. (1) 21 Q. B. D. 220. (2) 85 L. J. K. B. 1177. (3) 20 Q. B. D. 359. (4) 22 L. R. Ir. 219. (1) [1909] 2 I. R. 13. (2) [1909] 2 I. R., p. 15, note. (1) [1897] A. C., at p. 76. (2) 16 C. B. 179. (3) 10 Ir. Ju......
1 books & journal articles
  • A social security perspective of employees’ compensation law in Nigeria
    • South Africa
    • Journal of Corporate Commercial Law & Practice No. , November 2022
    • 9 November 2022
    ...not scienti non fit injuria, but volenti’. See also Thomas v Quartermaine (1887) 18 QBD 658 at 696, per Bowen LJ; Thrussell v Handyside (1888) 20 QBD 359; Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation (1944) 1 KB 476; Wheeler v New Merton Board Mills Ltd (1933) 2 KB 669 where it was held that volenti ......

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