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Excerpt from Digest of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Canada: Comprising All the Cases Reported in Volumes 34 to 54 of the Official Reports, Cameron's Supreme Court Cases, Coutlee's Supreme Court Cases, and Cameron's Supreme Court Practice
Champlain, while navigating the River St. Lawrence at some distance from a place where dredging was being carried on by the Government of Canada, and engaged in tow ing an empty mud-scow, owned by the Gov ernment, from the dumping ground back to the place where the dredging was being done, came in collision with the suppliant's steam barge, which was also navigating the river, and the barge sustained injuries z - Held, ai firming the judgment of the Exchequer Court of Canada, that there could be no recovery against the Crown for damages suffered in consequence of negligence of its o?icers or servants, as the injury had not been sus tained on a public work within the meaning of the sixteenth section of the Exchequer Court Act. Chambers v. Whitehaven Har bour Commissioners 2 Q. B. Hall v. Snowden, Hubbard cé Co. 2 Q. B. 136) Lowth v. Ibbotson 1 Q. B. 1003) Farnell V. Bowman (12 App. 088. 643) and The attorney-general of the Straits Settlements v. Weymss (13 App. Gas.
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