Winnipeg Electric Company v Jacob Geel

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1932
Year1932
Date1932
CourtPrivy Council
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47 cases
  • H.C. v. Loo, (2003) 403 A.R. 212 (QB)
    • Canada
    • Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada)
    • 17 December 2002
    ...Uned. 393 (S.C.), refd to. [para. 46]. May v. Julien, [1989] B.C.J. No. 2224 (S.C.), refd to. [para. 46]. Winnipeg Electric Co. v. Geel, [1932] A.C. 690 (P.C.), refd to. [para. Williams v. Fedoryshin, [1959] S.C.R. 249, refd to. [para. 63]. Feener v. MacKenzie, [1972] S.C.R. 525; 3 N.S.R.(2......
  • Hisco v. Stitz, 2008 MBQB 45
    • Canada
    • Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba (Canada)
    • 8 February 2008
    ...Melnychuk v. Moore and Associated Beer Distributors Ltd. (1989), 57 Man.R.(2d) 174, refd to. [para. 5]. Geel v. Winnipeg Electric Co., [1932] A.C. 690 (P.C.), refd to. [para. 5]. Mikuletic v. Harvie (1979), 1 Man.R.(2d) 156 (C.A.), refd to. [para. 5]. Bese v. Mayan, [1971] B.C.J. No. 467 (S......
  • White v. Guptill, (1973) 5 N.S.R.(2d) 638 (CA)
    • Canada
    • Nova Scotia Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Canada)
    • 13 March 1969
    ...matter of onus, quoted with approval from the judgment delivered by Lord Wright in Winnipeg Electric Co. v. Geel, [1932] 4 D.L.R. 51; [1932] A.C. 690; [1932] 3 W.W.R. 49, as follows [at p. 105]: 'But the onus which the section places on the defendant is not in law a shifting or transitory o......
  • Guymer v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles, (1984) 61 N.S.R.(2d) 325 (TD)
    • Canada
    • Nova Scotia Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (Canada)
    • 25 January 1984
    ...referring to the matter of onus, quoted with approval from the judgment delivered by Lord Wright in Winnipeg Electric Company v. Geel, [1932] A.C. 690, as follows: 'But the onus which the section places on the defendant is not in law a shifting or transitory onus: it cannot be displaced mer......
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  • Selected Judgments
    • Jamaica
    • Telford Georges: A Legal Odyssey
    • 21 November 2008
    ...the accident would indeed have been inevitable. Such indeed was the plea in Winnipeg Electric Selected Judgments | 201 Company v Geel [1932] AC 690, the facts of which bear a striking resemblance to the facts of this case. Perhaps the position is most logically analysed by Lord Greene, who ......

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