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Personal Injury - From: 1800 To: 1849
This page lists 2 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Baker v Bolton and others [1808] EWCC J38; [1808] EWHC KB J92; (1808) 1 Camp 493; 170 ER 1033
8 Dec 1808
KBD
Lord Ellenborough
Personal Injury, Damages
The plaintiff and his wife had been thrown from the roof of a coach. The plaintiff sought damages for the loss of his wife's "comfort, fellowship, and assistance". Held: The claim failed in part: "the jury could only take into consideration the bruises which the plaintiff had himself sustained, and the loss of his wife's society, and the distress of mind he had suffered on her account, from the time of the accident till the moment of her dissolution. In a civil Court, the death of a human being could not be complained of as an injury; and in this case the damages, as to the plaintiff's wife, must stop with the period of her existence. "
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Priestley v Fowler [1837] EngR 202; (1837) 3 M & W 1; (1837) 150 ER 1030
1837
Personal Injury, Vicarious Liability
Priestley was a butcher's man who was injured when a van overloaded by fellow employees collapsed, injuring him. His lawsuit was founded on the principle of a master's vicarious liability for his servant's negligence.
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