The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1957] 1 QB 267
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION]
ST. JOHN SHIPPING CORPORATION
v.
JOSEPH RANK LTD.
[1956 S. No. 24.]
1956 Oct. 11,
12,
29.
Devlin J.
Shipping
— Load line
— Overloading
— Contravention of statute
— Effect on contract of carriage
— Whether shipowner entitled to recover freight
—
Merchant Shipping (Safety and load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 9), ss. 44, 57.
Contract
— Illegality
— Contract prohibited by statute.