Read the full judgment text of HCA 9069/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. In the afternoon of 12th August 1980 a lighter was off-loading its cargo of rice at the Kennedy Town New Praya onto lorries waiting at the quayside. The sacks of rice were being lifted by a boom derrick rigged to a samson post mounted on the lighter. All at once, belying its name, the samson post broke in two allowing the boom derrick to fall on top of the driver's cabin of one of the waiting lorries. The lorry in question was next in line and about 25 feet behind the one being loaded. The dr