Harpur v Nunn

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 30 March 1944
• Date: 30 March 1944
• Court: Supreme Court

(S.C.),

Harpur

and

Nunn

-Sub-contracting -Claim brought against principal - Principal a maltster - Special coal used by him for malting imported in ships chartered by him - Stevedore employed by him to unload the ships - Applicant employed by stevedore - Injured while unloading coal - Whether the work of unloading coal was "work undertaken by the principal" - Workmen's Compensation Act, 1934 (No. 9 of 1934), s. 19, sub-s. 1.

1. Sect. 19, sub-s. 1, of the Workmen's compensation Act, 1934, enacts:—"Subject to the provisions of this section, where any person (in this section referred to as the principal) in the course of or for the purpose of his trade or business, contracts with any other person (in this section referred to as the contractor) for the execution by or under the contractor of the whole or any part of...