TATEM STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. v. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND SOUTH WALES SIEMENS STEEL ASSOCIATION (THIRD PARTIES).

(1942) 73 Ll.L.Rep. 89

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Atkinson.

Dock authority-Negligence of stevedores- Damage to plaintiffs' steamship Monkleigh during unloading - Defendant railway company (dock authority at Swansea) employed to unload plaintiffs' ship of cargo of scrap iron- Damage to vessel discovered when discharge completed-Whether done in course of unloading or at some time previous-Evidence of method of discharge; of complaints made during discharge; and of damage actually seen to have occurred-Defence: that such damage was avoidable with care and did not occur during discharge.