The Weekly Law Reports
[1964] 2 WLR 444
[COURT OF APPEAL.]
HALEY
v.
LONDON ELECTRICITY BOARD.
[1959 H. No. 746.]
1963 Nov. 8,
11,
29.
Lord Denning M.R., Donovan and Danckwerts L.JJ.
Nuisance
— Statutory undertaker, liability of
— Highway
— Electricity undertaking
— Excavation in pavement pursuant to statutory powers
— Excavation guarded by sloping handle of punner-hammer
— Guard sufficient for sighted person
— Blind person tripped up by handle and injured
— Whether special duty owed to blind persons
—
Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 15), s. 6
—
Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56), s. 12 (as amended)
—
Public Utilities Street Works Act, 1950 (14 Geo. 6, c. 39), s. 8.
Negligence
— Duty of care to whom?
— Blind person
— Fall into hole in pavement
— Adequately guarded for others.