Read the full judgment text of HCPI 009069/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 August 1985.
1. The Plaintiff was sitting in the driver's seat of his stationary lorry parked along the waterfront of Kennedy Town New Praya, Hong Kong at 4.15 p.m. on 12th August 1980. At this time a lighter owned by the 1st and 2nd Defendants was moored alongside the seawall of the said Kennedy Town New Prays and was engaged in unloading cargo by use of a boom derrick which was rigged to a samson post mounted on the deck of the lighter. The said samson post suddenly fractured and collapsed causing the derr
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