Davies v. Mann

Davies v. Mann
A wagon accident involving a hapless donkey had significant reverberations in tort law.[1]

Davies v. Mann, 152 Eng. Rep. 588 (1842), was an English case that contained the first formulation of the "last clear chance" doctrine in negligence law.[2]

Decision

The case concerned an accident where a donkey belonging to the plaintiff was killed after a wagon driven by the defendant collided with it. The plaintiff had left the donkey on the side of the road while it was fettered, and this was deemed contributory negligence. The plaintiff was still allowed recovery, however, because the court ruled that the defendant had an opportunity to avoid the accident by driving with reasonable care (as opposed to driving too quickly at a "smartish pace"), so it was the defendant's negligence that really caused the accident. This doctrine became known as the "last clear chance" doctrine - if the defendant did not take the opportunity of using reasonable care to take the last clear chance to avoid injury, then the contributory negligence of the plaintiff is not a bar to recovery.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fuller v. Illinois Central R.R. 100 Miss. 705
  2. ^ Henderson, J.A. et al. The Torts Process, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York: NY, p. 361
  3. ^ Henderson, p. 362

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