Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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TEMPUS SHIPPING CO., LTD. v. LOUIS DREYFUS & CO.

(1931) 40 Ll L Rep 217

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before Viscount Dunedin, Lord Warrington of Clyffe, Lord Atkin, Lord Thankerton and Lord Macmillan.

General average - Claim by shipowners against cargo-owners for contribution towards ship's expenditure occasioned by spontaneous combustion of bunkers - Counterclaim by cargo-owners for loss of or damage to cargo - Unseaworthiness - Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Sect. 502 - Finding that loss happened without "actual fault or privity" of shipowners.

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