Earlier reported cases judgments 1955

Date	Case	Cited by
9 Dec 1955	Perry v Kendricks Transport Ltd [1956] 1 WLR 85 Liability in negligence requires precautions against risks that were reasonably foreseeable. Under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher, an occupier may also be…	2
8 Dec 1955	British Transport Commission v Gourley [1956] AC 185 Compensatory damages for past and prospective loss of earnings must reflect the claimant’s real financial loss. Where the earnings would have attracted income…	27
15 Nov 1955	In Re Ellenborough Park (In Re Davies, Decd, Powell v Maddison) [1956] Ch 131 A right granted for the use of a private communal garden may be an easement. It must be annexed to identifiable dominant land, accommodate that land, exist…	15
25 Jul 1955	Edwards v Bairstow [1956] AC 14 The meaning of a statutory expression such as adventure in the nature of trade is a question of law. Its application commonly involves an inference of fact…	207
17 May 1955	Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corpn [1955] 3 WLR 48 For contracts negotiated through substantially instantaneous communications, including telephone and Telex, acceptance ordinarily takes effect only when…	12
17 Mar 1955	Dennis v Dennis (Spillett Cited) [1955] 2 WLR 817 Acts of violence by a husband towards his wife may constitute cruelty sufficient for dissolution of marriage without proof of actual injury to health. The…
3 Mar 1955	Morelle Ltd v Wakeling [1955] 2 QB 379 The Court of Appeal is bound by its own previous decisions unless one of the recognised exceptions applies. A decision is ordinarily per incuriam only where…	21
17 Feb 1955	Inland Revenue Commissioners v Baddeley [1955] AC 572 A trust is charitable only if every purpose and use authorised by its terms is legally charitable. A benevolent object does not suffice where broad expressions…	5
17 Feb 1955	Lewis v Carmarthenshire County Council [1955] AC 549 A person responsible for a child too young to use a busy road safely owes road users a duty to take reasonable care to prevent the child from escaping…	8
3 Feb 1955	Hopgood v Brown [1955] 1 WLR 213 An owner who, by conduct and with the necessary authority, represents that an unmarked boundary may safely be treated as lying along a proposed building line…	8
	Tool Metal Manufacturing Co Ltd v Tungsten Electric Co Ltd [1955] 1 WLR 761 A contractual right voluntarily held in suspense may be resumed when, in all the circumstances, equity permits. Depending on the circumstances, the concession…	5