Cases

• The Wagon Mound


  Fuel oil spilled towards welding repairs which caught fire two days later

  HELD- although the spillage was reasonably foreseeable, the fire wasn't - damage was too remote from the original negligent act
• Bradford v Robinson 


  Claimant was asked by employer to drive old van with no heater - he suffered from frostbite

  HELD - employers were liable for his injuries, even though the injury he suffered was very unusual, some injury from the cold was foreseeable