Definition of ‘occupier’ under the Occupiers’ Liability Acts was determined.
The defendant was a brewery house. The managers of the brewery house lived on the premises and occupied a private portion there. A paying guest, Mr. Wheat, fell down the stairs of that private part of the premises and was killed, because there was no handrail on part of the stairs and an unknown person had removed the lightbulb on the stairway. The estate of the deceased guest sued the brewery under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957.
HELD: The main legal issue was whether the brewery fell within the scope of the Act as ‘occupier’. In the House of Lords, Lord Denning
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