DEE CONSERVANCY BOARD AND ANOTHER v. McCONNELL AND ANOTHER.

(1927) 29 Ll L Rep 181

LIVERPOOL COURT OFPASSAGE.

Before His Honour Judge Taylor.

Wreck-Expenses of removal of obstruction - Loss of business of wharf-owners - Claims by River Dee Conservators and wharf-owners against owners of sunken vessel - Finding that vessel was unseaworthy and that she was negligently left unattended by crew with privity of owners - Abandonment to underwriters before expenditure incurred - Whether common law right in respect of negligence and/or public nuisance barred by private statute incorporating Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 - Failure of wharf-owners to prove loss of business - Limitation of liability -