Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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

(1931) 39 Ll.L.Rep. 1

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-

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