Cases - Lee v Lord Bateman

Record details

Name

Lee v Lord Bateman

Date

(1893)

Citation

The Times, 31 October 1893

Keywords

Contract administration

Summary

Where the architect accepted the (wrong) view of the clerk of works as to the sufficiency of certain beams without himself carrying out an inspection, he was negligent if the beams turned out to be insufficient. Reliance on the clerk of works was not a defence.