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Jones v Livox Quarries Ltd

Hearings

England & Wales

25 Apr 1952 [1952] 2 QB 608, CA (Singleton, Denning and Hodson LJJ)

Subject Matter

NEGLIGENCE — Contributory negligence — Causation — Private roadway — Plaintiff riding on back of vehicle contrary to defendant employers' orders — Injured by following vehicle of defendants — Whether plaintiff's so riding a cause of his injuries — Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6, c. 28), ss. 1 and 4.

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