The Weekly Law Reports
[1954] 3 WLR 200
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
SOUTHPORT CORPORATION v. ESSO PETROLEUM CO. LD. AND ANOTHER.
[1951 S. 3864.]
[Southport Registry, 1951 S. 105.]
1954 May 11,
12,
13,
14;
June 3.
June 3.
Singleton, Denning and Morris L.JJ.
Shipping
— Nuisance
— Discharge of oil
— Public navigable river
— Tanker stranded in estuary
— Refloated by jettison of oil cargo
— Damage to foreshore by oil
— Action by owners of foreshore against shipowners
— Claim based on trespass, nuisance and negligence
— Negligence
— Res ipsa loquitur
— Onus of proof.
Shipping
— Collision
— Negligence
— Onus of proof. Negligence
— Onus of proof
— Res ipsa loquitur. Trespass
— Indirect act. Nuisance. Practice
— Pleadings
— Omission
— Due to other party's reticence.