The Weekly Law Reports
[1953] 3 WLR 773
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
SOUTHPORT CORPORATION v. ESSO PETROLEUM CO. LD. AND ANOTHER.
[1951 S. 3864.]
[Southport Registry, 1951 S. 105.]
1953 Oct. 28.
Devlin J.
Shipping
— Nuisance
— Highway
— Public navigable river
— Public nuisance
— Private nuisance
— Not emanating from defendants' land
— Defence of negligence
— Defence of necessity
— Trespass
— Nuisance analogous to trespass
— Tanker stranded in estuary
— Refloated by jettisoning oil cargo
— Damage to foreshore
— Liability of shipowners
— Whether stranding negligent
— Onus of proof
— Res ipsa loquitur
— Practice
— Admiralty question in Queen's Bench Division
— Need for assessor.