Cooke v Midland Great Western Railway Company of Ireland
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Court | House of Lords (Ireland) |
| Judgment Date | 01 March 1909 |
| Date | 01 March 1909 |
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50 cases
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Addie (Robert) and Sons (Collieries) Ltd v Dumbreck
...disregard of the presence of the trespasser. 8 It was suggested in argument for the respondent that the cases of Cooke v. The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, 1909, Appeal Cases, p. 229. and of Lowery v. Walker, 1911, Appeal Cases, p. 10, showed that even towards trespassers the ......
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Hawkins v Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council
...cost a small sum to repair. To take words from Lord Macnaghten's speech in ( Cooke v. Midland & Great Western Railway of Ireland 1909 Appeal Oases, 229) does not the learned Judge's finding involve that all these people were without common sense and ordinary Intelligence? In other words......
- Glasgow Corporation v Taylor
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Bohane v Driscoll
...child as the plaintiff; Per Murnaghan, J., because the principle of liability established by Cooke v. Midland Railway Co. of Ireland,ELR [1909] A. C. 229, applied. Held, also, that a defence based upon the Public Authorities Protection Act was unsustainable, as that Act had no application. ......
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1 books & journal articles
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Paul Mitchell, A History of Tort Law 1900–1950, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xviii + 366 pp, hb £75.00.
...modernEnglish law. Sixth, Thomas Beven’s confounding pamphlet following the deci-sion in Cooke vMidland Great Western Railway of Ireland [1909] AC 229, whichhad found in favour of trespassing children against a negligent occupier ofpremises (115): Beven’s rank anti-Irish digs represent a sa......