Winterbottom v Wright

Winterbottom v Wright
CourtExchequer of Pleas
Full case name Winterbottom v. Wright
Decided6 June 1846
Citations(1842) 10 M&W 109; (1842) 152 ER 402
Case history
Subsequent actionnone
Court membership
Judges sittingLord Abinger, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer

Baron Alderson
Baron Gurney

Baron Rolfe
Case opinions
Abinger, Alderson and Rolfe BB gave judgments against the plaintiff, Gurney B concurring

Winterbottom v Wright (1842) 10 M&W 109[1] was an important case in English common law responsible for constraining the law's 19th-century stance on negligence.

Facts

The plaintiff Winterbottom had been contracted by the Postmaster-General to drive a mail coach supplied by the Postmaster. The defendant Wright had been contracted by the Postmaster to maintain the coach in a safe state. The coach collapsed while Winterbottom was driving, and he was injured. He claimed that Wright had "negligently conducted himself, and so utterly disregarded his aforesaid contract and so wholly and negligently failed to perform his duty in this behalf."[2]

In Winterbottom v Wright, the court held that the plaintiff had no redress. The principle of Winterbottom meant that consumers who were injured by defective products in the 19th century had no legal action against the defective execution of a contract to which they were not expressly privy,[3] a doctrine referred to by legal scholars including P. H. Winfield as the "privity of contract fallacy".[4]

Judgment

In 1842, the law's only recognition of "negligence" was in respect of a breach of contract. As the plaintiff was not in a contract with the defendant, the court ruled in favour of the defendant on the basis of the doctrine of privity of contract.[2]

Winterbottom sought to extend the ratio of the court in Langridge v Levy[5] but the court rejected that on the grounds that that case involved a gun whose safety had been misrepresented by the vendor.[2]

The case was also possibly influenced by public policy. If the plaintiff were able to sue," there would be unlimited actions" and the public utility of the Postmaster-General was such that allowing such actions would be undesirable for society.[2]

Significance

Though Master of the Rolls William Brett sought to establish a general principle of duty of care in Heaven v. Pender (1883), his judgment was at variance with the majority of the court. The privity argument was subsequently rejected in common law in the United States in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. (1916) and finally in England by the doctrine of the "neighbour principle" in Donoghue v Stevenson (1932).[6]

Case law

References

  1. ^ (1842) 152 ER 402.
  2. ^ a b c d Lunney & Oliphant (2003) pp. 91–92.
  3. ^ Palmer, Vernon (1983). "Why privity entered tort – an historical reexamination of Winterbottom v. Wright". American Journal of Legal History. 27 (1): 85–98. doi:10.2307/844914. JSTOR 844914.
  4. ^ Heuston, R. F. V. (1957). "Donoghue v. Stevenson in Retrospect". The Modern Law Review. 20 (1): 10. ISSN 0026-7961. JSTOR 1091679.
  5. ^ Langridge v Levy (1837) 2 M&W 519; (1837) 150 ER 863.
  6. ^ "Torts – Liability of negligent manufacturer to remote vendee – The Rule of Winterbottom v. Wright". University of Chicago Law Review. 3 (4): 673–674. 1936. doi:10.2307/1596713. JSTOR 1596713.

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