LAW1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ginger Beer, Edward Hall Alderson, The Seller
22 Aug 2018
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During the 19th century, judges in england began developing a concept of negligence that is, the ability to sue someone for causing damage to you in situations where their (cid:498)duty(cid:499) towards you wasn(cid:495)t that clear. A salesman sold a gun to the plaintiff(cid:495)s father which was to be used by the. The seller said it was well constructed (cid:523)knowing that it wasn(cid:495)t(cid:524) and then. The son used the gun and it blew up and injured him. the inevitable happened - plaintiff (the son). The defendant leased out his mail coach to the plaintiff(cid:495)s (cid:523)mr. winterbottom(cid:524) The axle of the coach was defective and winterbottom crashed, sustaining employer, a mail co-contractor. injuries. The allegation against wright was that of negligence for not seeing to the maintenance of the mail delivering carriage. Mr. winterbottom was employed by a third party, mr. atkinson, a mail co- contractor who had a contract with the postmaster-general.
