BURRARD INLET TUNNEL & BRIDGE COMPANY v. "EURANA" (OWNERS).

(1931) 39 Ll.L.Rep. 309

JUDICIAL COMMITTEEOF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

Before Lord Merrivale, Lord Atkin, Lord Russell of Killowen, Lord Macmillan and Sir Lancelot Sanderson.

Public nuisance-Interference with navigation -Erection of bridge over Second Narrows, Vancouver Harbour - Collision between steamship and bridge- Damage to steamship and to bridge- Claim and counterclaim - Finding of lower Courts that the collision was an inevitable accident; that the bridge was an interference with navigation, but that the bridge, as erected, was authorised by statute -Claim and counterclaim dismissed - Burrard Inlet Tunnel & Bridge Company Act, 9 & 10 Edward VII, cap. 74-Railway Act (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, cap. 170)- Construction-