BRIDGES v. PORT OF LONDON AUTHORITY.

(1947) 81 Ll.L.Rep. 360

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Birkett.

Negligence-Common employment-Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff dock labourer in London dock-Plaintiff a member of gang employed in removing boxes from shed and stacking them outside preparatory to being lifted by stationary mobile crane on to lorry-Plaintiff injured by near rear wheel of another mobile crane just after it had passed lorry and stationary mobile crane - Cranes belonging to P.L.A. and driven by their servants - Action brought by plaintiff against P.L.A. alleging (1) that they were negligent in that (a) the crane was without means of giving adequate warning of its approach; (b) there was no look-out man in advance of the crane; (c) the look-out afforded to G., the driver of their crane, was by reason of its construction, inadequate; (2) that the driver G. was negligent in various particulars - Denial of negligence by P.L.A.-Further pleas that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, in that he stepped back into the crane; alternatively, that accident was due to negligence of S., driver of stationary mobile crane, in signalling the mobile crane driven by G. to pass when it was unsafe to do so and without giving proper warning to plaintiff and his gang, and that, both G. and S. being in common employment with plaintiff, there was no right of recovery- Whether plaintiff employed by P.L.A.- Plaintiff allocated to particular job by local Dock Labour Board-Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Order, [1947] S.R. & O., No. 1189-Construction.