Viscount Dunedin spoke of a hypothetical case in which two dogs had worried a sheep to death: ‘Would we then have to hold that each dog had half killed the sheep?’
Viscount Hailsham said: The owner of one of the two dogs which had worried the sheep was liable for the whole damage because ‘each of the dogs did in law occasion the whole of the damage which was suffered by the sheep as a result of the action of the two dogs acting together’
Judges:
Viscount Dunedin, Viscount Hailsham
Citations:
[1931] AC 560
Cited by:
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Damages, Negligence
Updated: 17 May 2022; Ref: scu.241496